Title
On building a concatenative speech synthesis system from the blizzard challenge speech databases
Abstract
In this paper, we compare two methods of building a concatenative speech synthesis system from the relatively small, "Blizzard Challenge" speech databases. In the first method we build a system directly from the Blizzard databases using the IBM Concatenetative Speech Synthesis System originally designed for very large speech databases. In the second method, a larger database is used to build the synthesis system and the output is "morphed" to match the speakers in the Blizzard databases. The second method outperformed the first while maintaining the identity of the Blizzard target speakers.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2005
conference of the international speech communication association
speech synthesis
Field
DocType
Citations 
Speech corpus,Speech synthesis,IBM,Computer science,Speech recognition,Artificial intelligence,Natural language processing,Database
Conference
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.49
5
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
wael hamza119815.84
Raimo Bakis2153308.32
Zhiwei Shuang3426.83
Heiga Zen41922103.73