#BlizzardChallenge2015
This repository has the context generator and question files for Blizzard Challenge 2015 which built Text-to-speech synthesizer for Indian languages.
Shinnosuke Takamichi, Kazuhiro Kobayashi, Kou Tanaka, Tomoki Toda, and Satoshi Nakamura, "The NAIST Text-to-Speech System for the Blizzard Challenge 2015," Proc. of Blizzard Challenge Workshop, Berlin, Germany, Sep., 2015.
- Festival (> 2.7) ... for text analysis of Indian languages
- HTS (> 2.1) ... for using the question file
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run an analysis recipe of Festival to extract utt files (see http://festvox.org/festvox/x3528.html).
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fix scripts/extra_feats.scm to load the voice definition file (festvox/cmu_indic_ss_clunits.scm) of Festival.
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fix scripts/mk_hts_full.pl
Please change $dumpfeat, $promptdir, $fulldir, and $opt to fit your environment.
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extract contextual features
perl scripts/mk_hts_full.pl etc/txt.done.data(text file for Festival)
please load question files for training with HTS.