Lessac Technologies, Inc. voice release for Blizzard 2011

These data were made available to registered participants in the Blizzard Challenge 2011 and are now available generally.

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 is Nancy Krebs, who is a professional voice coach. She has a US English accent.

The Voice Works, Nancy Krebs' voice training and coaching company
Lessac Technologies Inc.
The Lessac Institute

Downloads

The data comprises:

16k prompts in wave file format
pitch marks for 16k wave files
prompts in text format
automated label files in Lesseme format (a prosodic phoneme set of 800+ labels), as produced by the Lessac front-end, including segmentation boundaries
corrected labels (i.e. for a few labels, the correct Lesseme label is different than that produced by the Front-end due to Front-end issues or Voice actor issues ) - these may or may not be useful to participants
Lesseme descriptions and a mapping description to go from Lessemes to other phoneme sets
original unsplit full fidelity wave files (one studio session was at 44.1K, the rest at 96K)

The following files are available to download from here:

wavn.tgz - Tarred archive of the prompts in the Nancy corpus, at 16KHz sampling rate, with each file name as used in the Nancy corpus.
Nancy3AsciiPitchmarkers.zip - Zipped set of files with pitch marks in ascii format. The header in each file describes the format.
prompts.data - File with all of the prompt texts in filename order.
corrected.gui - File with all of the prompts in Lesseme labeled format in the order of the Nancy corpus as originally recorded, after some labels produced by the Lessac Front-end were corrected to reflect what the voice actor actually said.
uncorrected.gui - File with all of the prompts in Lesseme labeled format in the order of the Nancy corpus as produced by the Lessac Front-end from the prompts.data file without correction to the labels for what the voice actor actually said.
lab.ssil.zip - Zipped set of files with Lesseme labels that include the result of automated segmentation of the Lesseme labels in the corrected.gui file before the ssil label is collapsed into the preceding or following label.
lab.zip - Zipped set of files with Lesseme labels that include the result of automated segmentation of the labels in the corrected.gui file after the ssil label is collapsed into the preceding or following label.
Lessemes.zip - Zipped set of files with descriptions of the Lesseme labeling methodology.
NancyCorpusToArchiveMap.xls - Mapping of the Nancy Corpus filenames to the file recording order used in the sound studio reflected in the two Archive zip files. Please note there are two prompt files missing from the archive, and one duplicate. Each is noted and explained in the Exceptions column.

as well as the following files which participants may find useful:

96k_wav_part_[1-4].tar.bz2 - the original studio recordings at 96KHz, with each prompt separated by a pure tone, and named sequentially
44k_wav.tar.bz2 - the original studio recordings downsampled to 44.1KHz, with each prompt separated by a pure tone, and named sequentially.

md5 checksums for the files are as follows:

	dd633a50bc40c690e89dafa9a2c2769a  44k_wav.tar.bz2

	1ce493db881fd50fc1006e8c51fd527d  96k_wav_part_1.tar.bz2
	bb32ae158aa97a3e39c50f7811f425bf  96k_wav_part_2.tar.bz2
	6007ce1b5b186cad0740155f533fd5ab  96k_wav_part_3.tar.bz2
	be322bace2e19c2bd08376b78023fb39  96k_wav_part_4.tar.bz2

	ec2bbd518751cb350680b66833e61411  corrected.gui
	0a4860a69bca56d7e9f8170306ff3709  lab.ssil.zip
	aeae7916d881a8eef255a6fe05e77e77  lab.zip
	e5c8afeaa8c6517e9980268dc2705ad7  Lessemes.zip
	292157e81dbc93944bbcf5b1ae61f638  Nancy3AsciiPitchmarkers.zip
	9e91f5076c3cb6246e9881ceb7581d21  NancyCorpusToArchiveMap.xls
	650b44f7252aed564d190b76a98cb490  prompts.data
	a370e4715e95b227503f371ecfd1a518  uncorrected.gui
	bb2a80dd1423f87ba12d2074af8e7a3f  wavn.tgz

and the sizes of the large files are:

	3.8G    44k_wav.tar.bz2
	5.3G    96k_wav_part_1.tar.bz2
	4.6G    96k_wav_part_2.tar.bz2
	3.9G    96k_wav_part_3.tar.bz2
	3.9G    96k_wav_part_4.tar.bz2
	1.6G    wavn.tgz

Front end

Lessac Technologies Inc. have made their front end available via the internet. Some notes on usage and restrictions can be found in the file lessac_front_end_instructions.html which is available after you obtain a license for the data.

Contact Simon King for more details.