Multilingual MARY TTS participation in the Blizzard Challenge 2009
Marc L. Schröder, Sathish Pammi, Oytun Türk · 2009
The paper describes the Blizzard Challenge 2009 participation of MARY TTS, an open-source TTS system using a unit selection voice. We briefly outline the new language support framework we provide so that people can add support for their languages to MARY TTS, and describe how that framework was used for building a Mandarin Chinese system and voice. The system performs well for English and reasonably for Chinese.