OpenMary – Open Source Unit Selection as the Basis for Research on Expressive Synthesis
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This paper describes the unit selection component of the open source text-to-speech system OpenMary. It is a generic unit selection component with parameterisable target and join cost functions followed by optional signal post-processing, and it has been created for the Blizzard challenge 2006. We describe the creation process, the core properties of the system and the preparation of a synthesis voice from the Blizzard data. We also point out the directions in which we are currently developing the system towards expressive unit selection.
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