Roger voice release for Blizzard 2010

These data are available only to registered participants in the Blizzard Challenge 2010.

Speech data

The 16kHz speech data are identical to those in the ARCTIC subset of the corpus used in the 2008 and 2009 challenges, so if you obtained the data through your participation in 2008 or 2009, you do not need to complete this license form or download the data again. If you want the 48kHz files, simply complete the license again. This data is released under a license for non-commercial use only. To download, first read and accept the license. Once we have received your license, we will email you a password.

Downloads

The following files are available to download from here:

roger_arctic_blizzard_release_2010_16k.tar.bz2 - the ARCTIC subset of the roger corpus at 16kHz sampling rate
roger_arctic_blizzard_release_2010_48k_wavs_only.tar.bz2 - the ARCTIC subset of the roger corpus at 48kHz sampling rate (wav files only - please download the 16k file to obtain transcriptions etc)

Labels

Two sets of labels are provided:

standard Festival utterances, obtained using the multisyn voice building tools - these are identical to those provided in 2009
hand-corrected phone labels (based on the original Festival utterances above) and hand-annotated prosodic labels, kindly provided by iFLYTEK.

This data is released under a license for non-commercial use only. In order to obtain these labels, you need to agree to the Unisyn lexicon license terms, since both versions of the labels originate from the pronunciations generated by this lexicon. First, read and accept the Unisyn lexicon license. Once we have received your license, we will email you a password.

Downloads

The following files are available to download from here:

original_festival_utts_for_roger_arctic.tar.bz2 - automatically produced labels
iFLYTEK_labels_for_roger_arctic.tar.bz2 - hand-corrected labels

Development data, tools, benchmark voices

Several items are available for use by participants during development of their voice. These include the 2009 test sentences synthesised by this year's benchmark voices. Since these items depend on the Unisyn lexicon, they are only available to participants who have agreed to the Unisyn lexicon license, as for the labels above.

Downloads

The following files are available to download from here:

roger-arctic-benchmark-voice-hts-48k-original_labels-ver1.tar.gz - the HTS benchmark voice trained on 48kHz versions of the data using the automatically produced labels
roger-arctic-benchmark-voice-hts-48k-iflytek_labels-ver1.tar.gz - the HTS benchmark voice trained on 48kHz versions of the data using the hand-corrected iFLYTEK labels (NOT YET AVAILABLE)
roger-arctic-benchmark-voice-festival-16k-iflytek_labels-ver1.tar.gz - the Festival benchmark voice using 16kHz versions of the data and the automatically produced labels (NOT YET AVAILABLE)

Contact Simon King for more details.