ISCA Archive Blizzard 2011
ISCA Archive Blizzard 2011

I2R Text-to-Speech System for Blizzard Challenge 2011

Minghui Dong, S W Lee, Paul Chan, Ling Cen

This paper describes I2R's submission to the Blizzard Challenge 2011 speech synthesis evaluation. This is our fourth participation in the challenge. In this paper, we will describe our main approaches to building the required voices. We will describe our definitions of the acoustic, prosodic and linguistic parameters, procedure of candidate unit selection, components of cost functions, etc. Finally, we will also present the results of the listening test conducted.