The Speect text-to-speech system entry for the Blizzard Challenge 2013
Johannes Abraham Louw, Georg I. Schlunz, Willem van der Walt, Febe de Wet, Laurette Pretorius · 2013
This paper describes the Speect text-to-speech system entry for the Blizzard Challenge 2013. The techniques applied for the tasks of the challenge are described as well as the implementation details for the alignment of the audio books and the text-to-speech system modules. The results of the evaluations are given and discussed. Index Terms: speech synthesis, multilingual, open source, Blizzard Challenge 2013, audio books.