Key challenges

Taylor identifies the key challenges in text-to-speech. Of these, the generation of natural human-sounding speech is going to be the focus of this course.

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1.6.1 highly intelligible HMM-generated speech (HTS benchmark from Blizzard Challenge 2013)

1.6.2 unit selection speech from ILSP judged as highly natural by listeners in the Blizzard Challenges of 2011 and 2013, respectively

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