Le Maguer, Sébastien; Steiner, Ingmar
The MaryTTS entry for the Blizzard Challenge 2016
Blizzard Challenge, Cupertino, CA, USA, 2016.
The MaryTTS system is a modular architecture text-to-speech (TTS) system whose development started around 15 years ago. This paper presents the MaryTTS entry for the Blizzard Challenge 2016. For this entry, we used the default configuration of MaryTTS based on the unit selection paradigm.
However, the architecture is currently undergoing a massive refactoring process in order to provide a more fully modular system. This will allow researchers to focus only on some part of the synthesis process. The current participation objective includes assessing the current baseline quality in order to evaluate any future improvements. These can be achieved more easily thanks to a more flexible and robust architecture. The results obtained in this challenge prove that our system is not obsolete, but improvements need to be made to maintain it in the state of the art in the future.