The AHOLAB Blizzard Challenge 2009 Entry
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This paper describes the process of building unit selection voices for our participation in the Blizzard Challenge 2009. Out of the three voices required (EH1: 15 hours UK English, EH2: 1 hour UK English subset and MH: 6000-utterance Mandarin Chinese) only the English ones were built. As far as the Hub Tasks is concerned, only the ES1 task was completed using voice conversion techniques. The Evaluation show that some improvements have been made over last year results, especially for EH2 voice.
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The AHOLAB Blizzard Challenge 2008 Entry
This paper describes the process of building unit selection voices for our participation in the Blizzard Challenge 2008. Out of the three voices required (15 hours UK English, 1 hour UK English subset and 6.5 hours Mandarin Chinese) we only built the English ones.
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