ISCA Archive - I2R Text-to-Speech System for Blizzard Challenge 2009
ISCA Archive Blizzard 2009
ISCA Archive Blizzard 2009

I2R Text-to-Speech System for Blizzard Challenge 2009

Minghui Dong, Ling Cen, Paul Chan, Dongyan Huang, Donglai Zhu, Bin Ma, Haizhou Li

This paper describes I2R's submission to the Blizzard Challenge 2009. This is our second time participating in this challenge. In this paper, we will describe our main approach to building the required voices. We will introduce the procedure of database processing, the definitions of the acoustic, prosodic and linguistic parameters, the components of cost functions, etc. Since our Mandarin system has performed well in the evaluation, we will explain more about the Mandarin system. We will also explain how the unit selection method works on very small Mandarin speech databases.