Statistical Analysis of the Blizzard Challenge 2007 Listening Test Results

Robert A. J. Clark; Monika Podsiadlo; Mark Fraser; Catherine Mayo; Simon King

Statistical Analysis of the Blizzard Challenge 2007 Listening Test Results

Robert A. J. Clark, Monika Podsiadlo, Mark Fraser, Catherine Mayo, Simon King

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Abstract

Blizzard 2007 is the third Blizzard Challenge, in which participants build voices from a common dataset. A large listening test is conducted which allows comparison of systems in terms of naturalness and intelligibility. New sections were added to the listening test for 2007 to test the perceived similarity of the speaker's identity between natural and synthetic speech. In this paper, we present the results of the listening test and the subsequent statistical analysis.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proc. Blizzard 2007 (in Proc. Sixth ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis)
Publisher	International Speech Communication Association
Publication status	Published - 1 Aug 2007

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TESSa: Testing Evaluation of Speech Synthesis (TESSa)
King, S. (Principal Investigator)
EPSRC
1/01/05 → 31/12/07
Project: Research
Streamed models for automatic speech recognition (EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship)
King, S. (Principal Investigator)
EPSRC
1/01/05 → 31/12/09
Project: Research

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Streamed models for automatic speech recognition (EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship)

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