Introduction to the course

Course outline. A taster of what is to come, by listening to a variety of TTS systems.

4 minutes 28 seconds

Audio examples

1.1.1 Festival unit selection, fully automatic (uncorrected) voice build, professional speaker

1.1.2 Nuance online demo and Loquendo online demo (owned by Nuance) 1.1.3 Acapela online demo 1.2.1 Festival + HTS statistical parametric (HMM) waveform generation with the STRAIGHT vocoder (same front end, speaker and database as 1.1.1)

1.2.2 Festival + HTS + STRAIGHT, with acoustic model adaptation from an average voice model to around 30 minutes of speech from non-professional target speaker

1.3.1 Microsoft’s “trajectory tiling” hybrid waveform generation and the corresponding paper

1.3.2 Nuance’s “multiform” method, which alternates between unit selection and statistical parametric waveform generation (example currently unavailable) 1.3.3 USTC / iFlyTek hybrid waveform generation and the corresponding paper

1.3.4 SHRC hybrid waveform generation and the corresponding paper