The Blizzard Challenge 2008
The Blizzard Challenge 2008
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10.21437/blizzard.2008-1
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2008-09
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Simon King;R. Clark;C. Mayo;Vasilis Karaiskos
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作者：
Simon King;R. Clark;C. Mayo;Vasilis Karaiskos
2008年暴雪挑战赛是第四届暴雪挑战赛。今年，参与者被要求从英国英语语料库中构建两个声音，从曼达林汉语语料库中构建一个声音。这是第一次收录英语以外的语言，也是第一次提供大型英国英语语料库。此外，英语语料库包含的语言表达能力比之前暴雪挑战赛中使用的语料库更强。为了帮助资源有限或英国口音英语或普通话经验有限的参与者，为语料库和测试句子提供了不对齐的标签。参与者可以使用提供的标签或创建自己的标签。还为讲英语的人提供了一本针对口音的发音词典。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。进行了在线听力测试，以评估自然度、可懂度和与原始扬声器索引项的相似度：暴雪挑战、语音合成、评估、听力测试
The Blizzard Challenge 2008 was the fourth annual Blizzard Challenge. This year, participants were asked to build two voices from a UK English corpus and one voice from a Man- darin Chinese corpus. This is the first time that a language other than English has been included and also the first time that a large UK English corpus has been available. In addi- tion, the English corpus contained somewhat more expressive speech than that found in corpora used in previous Blizzard Challenges. To assist participants with limited resources or limited ex- perience in UK-accented English or Mandarin, unaligned la- bels were provided for both corpora and for the test sentences. Participants could use the provided labels or create their own. An accent-specific pronunciation dictionary was also available for the English speaker. 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 con- ducted, to evaluate naturalness, intelligibility and degree of similarity to the original speaker Index Terms: Blizzard Challenge, speech synthesis, evalua- tion, listening test