The SIWIS French Speech Synthesis Database
Junichi Yamagishi, Pierre-Edouard Honnet, Philip N. Garner, Alexandros Lazaridis · University of Edinburgh · 2017
The SIWIS French Speech Synthesis Database includes high quality French speech recordings and associated text files, aimed at building TTS systems, investigate multiple styles, and emphasis. A total of 9750 utterances from various sources such as parliament debates and novels were uttered by a professional French voice talent. A subset of the database contains emphasised words in many different contexts. The database includes more than ten hours of speech data and is freely available.