The Blizzard Challenge 2009
The Blizzard Challenge 2009
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DOI：
10.21437/blizzard.2009-1
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发表时间：
2009-09
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通讯作者：
Simon King;Vasilis Karaiskos
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作者：
Simon King;Vasilis Karaiskos
2009年暴雪挑战赛是第五届暴雪年度挑战赛。与2008年一样，英国英语和汉语普通话是2009年挑战赛的选定语言。英语语料库与2008年使用的相同。汉语语料库由科大讯飞提供。像往常一样，资源有限或经验有限的参与者可以选择使用为语料库和测试句子提供的未对齐标签。还为讲英语的人提供了一本针对口音的发音词典。今年，这些任务以“枢纽”和“辐条”的形式组织，其中每个枢纽任务涉及构建通用语音，每个辐条任务涉及为特定应用构建语音。一组测试句子被发布给参与者，他们被给予有限的时间来合成它们并提交合成语音。通过在线听力测试来评估自然度、可懂度、与原说话人的相似度以及口语任务中的“适当性”。“索引条款：暴雪挑战，语音合成，评估，听力测试
The Blizzard Challenge 2009 was the fifth annual Blizzard Chal- lenge. As in 2008, UK English and Mandarin Chinese were the chosen languages for the 2009 Challenge. The English corpus was the same one used in 2008. The Mandarin corpus was pro- vided by iFLYTEK. As usual, participants with limited resources or limited experience in these languages had the option of using unaligned labels that were provided for both corpora and for the test sentences. An accent-specific pronunciation dictionary was also available for the English speaker. This year, the tasks were organised in the form of 'hubs' and 'spokes' where each hub task involved building a general-purpose voice and each spoke task in- volved building a voice for a specific application. A set of test sentences was released to participants, who were given a limited time in which to synthesise them and submit the synthetic speech. An online listening test was conducted to eval- uate naturalness, intelligibility, degree of similarity to the original speaker and, for one of the spoke tasks, "appropriateness." Index Terms: Blizzard Challenge, speech synthesis, evaluation, listening test