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The Blizzard Challenge 2006

Last year the Blizzard Challenge 2005 introduced th e speech synthesis community to the concept of large scale, multi-site evaluation of TTS systems using common data. In this, the second year of the Blizzard Challenge, we again tac kled this task. Participation increased dramatically, out of a total of 17 initial sites that showed interest, a total of 14 s ites from around the world actually submitted entries. In this pape r we discuss the results, difficulties, and differences in this year’s Challenge. Index Terms : speech synthesis, evaluation, corpus based synthesis

Alan W. Black | Christina L. Bennett

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