In this paper, the speech synthesis systems developed by USTC for Bilizzard Challenge
2015 are introduced. The constructed systems include Indian languages of Bengali, Hindi …

This paper presents a text-to-speech (TTS) system developed at Nara Institute of Science
and Technology (NAIST) for the Blizzard Challenge 2015. The tasks of this year's challenge …

This paper introduces the speech synthesis system developed by USTC for Blizzard
Challenge 2012. An audiobook speech corpus is adopted as the training data for system …

This paper describes a hidden Markov model based text-tospeech (TTS) system developed
at the Nagoya Institute of Technology (NITECH) for Blizzard Challenge 2014. The tasks of …

This paper introduces the speech synthesis systems developed by USTC and iFlytek for
Blizzard Challenge 2007. These two systems are both HMM-based ones and employ similar …

This paper introduces the USTC speech synthesis system for Blizzard Challenge 2006. The
HMM-based parametric synthesis approach was adopted for its convenience and …

The paper presents the capability of an HMM-based TTS system to produce Bengali speech.
In this synthesis method, trajectories of speech parameters are generated from the trained …

This paper introduces the speech synthesis system developed by USTC for Blizzard
Challenge 2008. Two synthetic voices from the released UK English database are built …

We describe a hidden Markov model (HMM)-based speech synthesis system developed at
the Nagoya Institute of Technology (NIT) for Blizzard Challenge 2009. We incorporated …

Problem statement: In Thai speech synthesis using Hidden Markov model (HMM) based
synthesis system, the tonal speech quality is degraded due to tone distortion. This major …