OpenMary - Open Source Unit Selection as the Basis for Research on Expressive Synthesis
Marc Schroeder, Anna Hunecke, Sacha Krstulović · 2006
This paper describes the unit selection component of the open source text-to-speech system OpenMary. It is a generic unit selection component with parameterisable target and join cost functions followed by optional signal post-processing, and it h as been created for the Blizzard challenge 2006. We describe the creation process, the core properties of the system and the preparati on of a synthesis voice from the Blizzard data. We also point out the directions in which we are currently developing the system towards expressive unit selection. Index Terms: speech synthesis, unit selection, expressive speech, target cost, signal processing