The SIWIS French Speech Synthesis Database (original) (raw)

Data Creator

Yamagishi, Junichi
Honnet, Pierre-Edouard
Garner, Philip
Lazaridis, Alexandros

Publisher

University of Edinburgh. School of Informatics. The Centre for Speech Technology Research

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Citation

Yamagishi, Junichi; Honnet, Pierre-Edouard; Garner, Philip; Lazaridis, Alexandros. (2017). The SIWIS French Speech Synthesis Database, 2016 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Informatics. The Centre for Speech Technology Research. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/1705.

Description

The SIWIS French Speech Synthesis Database includes high quality French speech recordings and associated text files, aimed at building TTS systems, investigate multiple styles, and emphasis. A total of 9750 utterances from various sources such as parliament debates and novels were uttered by a professional French voice talent. A subset of the database contains emphasised words in many different contexts. The database includes more than ten hours of speech data and is freely available.