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Blizzard 2008: Experiments on Unit Size for Unit Selection Speech SynthesisAuthors: E.Veera Raghavendra,Srinivas Desai, B Yegnanarayana,Alan W Black,Kishore Prahallad Conference: in Blizzard Challenge 2008 workshop, Brisbane, Australia Date: 2008-09-29 Report no: IIIT/TR/2008/148 AbstractThis paper describes the techniques and approaches developed for building synthetic voices in Blizzard 2008 speech synthesis challenge. We have submitted three different voices: English full voice, English ARCTIC voice and Mandarin voice. Our system is identified as D. In building the three voices, our approach has been to experiment and exploit syllable-like large units for concatenative synthesis. Inspite of large database supplied in Blizzard 2008, we find that a back-off strategy is essential in using syllable-like units. In this paper we propose a novel technique of approximate matching of the syllables as back-off technique for building voices. Full paper: pdf Centre for Language Technologies Research Centre |
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