Louw, Johannes AMoodley, AvashlinGovender, Avashna2020-03-172020-03-172016-09Louw, J.A., Moodley, A. & Govender, A. 2016. The Speect text-to-speech entry for the Blizzard Challenge 2016. In: Blizzard Challenge 2016, Cupertino, United States of America, 16 September 2016http://festvox.org/blizzard/blizzard2016.htmlhttp://hdl.handle.net/10204/11323Presented in: Blizzard Challenge 2016, Cupertino, United States of America, 16 September 2016This paper describes the Speect text-to-speech system entry submitted to the Blizzard Challenge 2016. The focus of this entry was to build a data driven text-to-speech system that generates an expressive voice suitable for children’s audio books. The techniques applied for the task of the challenge and the implementation details for the alignment of the audio books and text-to-speech modules are described. The results of the evaluations are given and discussed.enAudio booksBlizzard Challenge 2016Expressive speechHMM-based speech synthesisConference PresentationLouw, J. A., Moodley, A., & Govender, A. (2016). The Speect text-to-speech entry for the Blizzard Challenge 2016. Blizzard Challenge. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/11323Louw, Johannes A, Avashlin Moodley, and Avashna Govender. "The Speect text-to-speech entry for the Blizzard Challenge 2016." (2016): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/11323Louw JA, Moodley A, Govender A, The Speect text-to-speech entry for the Blizzard Challenge 2016; Blizzard Challenge; 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/11323 .TY - Conference Presentation AU - Louw, Johannes A AU - Moodley, Avashlin AU - Govender, Avashna AB - This paper describes the Speect text-to-speech system entry submitted to the Blizzard Challenge 2016. The focus of this entry was to build a data driven text-to-speech system that generates an expressive voice suitable for children’s audio books. The techniques applied for the task of the challenge and the implementation details for the alignment of the audio books and text-to-speech modules are described. The results of the evaluations are given and discussed. DA - 2016-09 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Audio books KW - Blizzard Challenge 2016 KW - Expressive speech KW - HMM-based speech synthesis LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2016 T1 - The Speect text-to-speech entry for the Blizzard Challenge 2016 TI - The Speect text-to-speech entry for the Blizzard Challenge 2016 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/11323 ER -