Materials

The choice of appropriate text materials needs to be guided by what we are trying to measure, and what kind of listeners we are using.

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4.1 Typical materials used in the Blizzard Challenge a) Natural speech

Semantically unpredictable sentences

b) Unit selection (the Festival benchmark system)

Semantically unpredictable sentences

4.3 Delexicalised HMM synthesis

4.4 Delexicalised unit selection, achieved by only using only prosodic features in the target cost

4.5 Human delexicalised speech! 4.6 more “interesting” speech