UCD Blizzard Challenge 2011 Entry
Peter J. Cahill, Kalu U. Ogbureke, João P. Cabral, Éva Székely, Mohamed Abou-Zleikha, Zeeshan Ahmed, Julie Carson-Berndsen · 2011
This paper gives an overview of the UCD Blizzard Challenge 2011 entry. The entry is a unit selection synthesiser that uses hidden Markov models for prosodic modelling. The evaluation consisted of synthesising 2213 sentences from a high quality 15 hour dataset provided by Lessac Technologies. Results are analysed within the context of other systems and the future work for the system is discussed. Index Terms: blizzard challenge, speech synthesis, unit selection, duration modelling