The Speect text - to - speech system entry for the Blizzard Challenge 2013
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This paper describes the Speect text-to-speech system entry for the Blizzard Challenge 2013. The techniques applied for the tasks of the challenge are described as well as the implementation details for the alignment of the audio books and the text-to-speech system modules. The results of the evaluations are given and discussed.
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