Phonetic Arts voice release for Blizzard 2010

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

Speech data

Download

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:

rjs_blizzard_16k.tar.bz2 - the corpus at 16kHz sampling rate, already high-pass filtered
rjs_blizzard_48k.tar.bz2 - the corpus at 48kHz sampling rate

Labels

This data is released under a license for non-commercial use only. The use of the labels is optional: they are provided only for your convenience. The labels are in the form of standard Festival utterances, obtained using the multisyn voice building tools. In order to obtain these labels, you need to agree to the Unisyn lexicon license terms, since 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.

Download

The following files are available to download from here:

festival_benchmark_rjs_utts_for_training_data.tar.bz2 - Festival utterances and time-aligned phonetic labels, created at the University of Edinburgh using the multisyn voice building tools

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:

phonetic-arts-benchmark-voice-hts-48k-ver1.tar.gz - the HTS benchmark voice trained on the 48kHz version of the data using the automatically produced labels, including the 2009 test set synthesised using this voice plus everything you need to build your own version of this voice
festival_benchmark_rjs_development_data.tar.bz2 - the 2009 test set synthesised by the Festival benchmark voice built from the 16kHz version of the data

Test sentences

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Contact Simon King for more details.