The NITech text-to-speech system for the Blizzard Challenge 2018

Kei Sawada, Takenori Yoshimura, Kei Hashimoto, Keiichiro Oura, Yoshihiko Nankaku, and Keiichi Tokuda,
"The NITech text-to-speech system for the Blizzard Challenge 2018,"
Blizzard Challenge 2018 Workshop [paper] [slide] [link]

Compare NITech TTS systems

NITech 2017 TTS system: K. Sawada, K. Hashimoto, K. Oura, and K. Tokuda, "The NITech text-to-speech system for the Blizzard Challenge 2017," Blizzard Challenge 2017 Workshop [link] [link]
NITech 2018 TTS system: K. Sawada, T. Yoshimura, K. Hashimoto, K. Oura, Y. Nankaku, and K. Tokuda, "The NITech text-to-speech system for the Blizzard Challenge 2018," Blizzard Challenge 2018 Workshop [link]

NITech 2017 TTS system NITech 2018 TTS system
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Hamlet_00001_00009
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Hamlet_00001_00013
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Hamlet_00001_00016
Hamlet_00001_00017
Hamlet_00001_00018
Hamlet_00001_00019
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Hamlet_00001_00021
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Synthesized speech samples (submitted)

Hamlet (Usborne Publishing) [picture 1] [picture 2] [picture 3]