The Blizzard Challenge 2014
Kishore Prahallad, Anandaswarup Vadapalli, Santosh Kesiraju, Hema A. Murthy, Swaran Lata, T. Nagarajan, Mahadeva Prasanna, Hemath Patil, Anil Kumar Sao, Simon King, Alan W. Black, Keiichi Tokuda · 2014
The Blizzard challenge 2014 was the tenth annual Blizzard challenge organized by the following group of institutions : IIIT Hyderabad, IIT Madras, DAIICT, SSN College of Engineering, IIT Mandi and IIT Guwahati with support and collaboration from DeitY, Government of India. This paper describes the tasks in the Blizzard challenge 2014. The tasks consisted of data from six Indian languages : Assamese, Gujarati, Hindi, Rajasthani, Tamil and Telugu. Seven participants from around the world used the speech data provided as well as the corresponding text transcriptions in UTF-8, to build synthetic voices, which were then evaluated by means of listening tests. Index Terms: Blizzard challenge, Speech synthesis, Evaluation of synthetic speech