"Developing a Test Bed of English Text-to-Speech System XIMERA for the Blizzard Challenge 2006 for the Blizzard Challenge 2006"
Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai, Toshio Hirai, Jinfu Ni, Nobuyuki Nishizawa, Junichi Yamagishi, Minoru Tsuzaki, Keiichi Tokuda, Satoshi Nakamura · Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) · 2006
This paper describes the development of a test bed English Text-to-Speech (TTS) system XIMERA at ATR for Blizzard Challenge 2006. The original XIMERA is aimed at constructing very highquality Japanese TTS. Therefore, several modules are customized for our huge-sized Japanese speech corpora. In order to participate in the Blizzard Challenge 2006, we construct a test bed of English TTS by modifying the original XIMERA without carefully system optimizations. Results of the challenge tell us a current level of our system and clarify points to be improved. This paper also discusses techniques adopted in XIMERA compared with many others.