Talrómur: A large Icelandic TTS corpus.
Atli Sigurgeirsson, Þorsteinn Gunnarsson, Gunnar Thor Örnólfsson, Eydís Huld Magnúsdóttir, Ragnheiðhur Thórhallsdóttir, Stefán Hrafn Jónsson, Jón Guðhnason · DSpace repository (University of Tartu) · 2021
We present Talrómur 1 , a large high-quality Text-To-Speech (TTS) corpus for the Icelandic language.This multi-speaker corpus contains recordings from 4 male speakers and 4 female speakers of a wide range in age and speaking style.The corpus consists of 122,417 single utterance recordings equating to approximately 213 hours of voice data.All speakers read from the same script which has a high coverage of possible Icelandic diphones.Manual analysis of 15,956 utterances indicates that the corpus has a reading mistake rate no higher than 0.25%.We additionally present results from subjective evaluations of the different voices with regards to intelligibility, likeability and trustworthiness.