Lessac Technologies, Inc. release of Voice Factory audiobook recordings for Blizzard 2013

These data were made available to registered participants in the Blizzard Challenge 2013 and are now available under the same license terms to all researchers.

Speech data

This data is released under a license for non-commercial use only. Read and accept the license. Once we have received your registration and your license, we will email you a password. All requests are manually checked.

Information about the speaker

The speaker's name is Catherine Byers (also known as Bobbie Byers). Here is a biography of her (provided by Lessac Tachnologies) and her IMDb page.

Downloads

The following files are available to download from here:

README - information about the training data
training_inventory.xls - the authors' names, book titles and duration of the audiobooks included in the training set
Lessac_Blizzard2013_CatherineByers_train.tar.bz2 - the training data
*.zip - a subset of the training data provided as original waveform files (which have not been compressed)

md5 checksums for the files are as follows:

	0db66b7dad8136d0dcf89fa531df36e8  Lessac_Blizzard2013_CatherineByers_train.tar.bz2
	c335681597eb0b91e9991e4e936a4cba  README
	676b09b5c604cd431d057c7062483581  training_inventory.xls
	dac5b44ccdc7094c7649a4a7133d65d8  BlackBeauty.zip
	f82c682ea4f5d8f6c6ba0db7ebc68ae9  mansfield1.zip
	ef5551c2b15631a3cd80b9c56fe9bf6d  mansfield2.zip
	1f9ba3bafea5dcd7c1e6df92dcd36e60  mansfield3.zip
	e55ee2b76ab0f7dcc21241bdd32186b0  pride_and_prejudice1.zip
	f40fed2b5b4d5eed1fdb23b000108187  pride_and_prejudice2.zip
	1fa6023baf823b563d8ad25255d8a801  pride_and_prejudice3.zip

and the sizes of the files are:

	474M    BlackBeauty.zip
	15G     Lessac_Blizzard2013_CatherineByers_train.tar.bz2
	2.0K    README_for_Lessac_Blizzard2013_CatherineByers_train
	1.3G    mansfield1.zip
	1.1G    mansfield2.zip
	1.4G    mansfield3.zip
	937M    pride_and_prejudice1.zip
	477M    pride_and_prejudice2.zip
	1.1G    pride_and_prejudice3.zip
	23K     training_inventory.xls

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