TC-STAR Evaluation Run #1 for TTS will take place from Sep 12, 2005 to Dec 12, 2005. The schedule and tasks can be seen here.
Before the proper evaluation run, participants have access to development data composed of plain text, SSML and XML files, depending on the evaluation tasks. See below development data.
TTS evaluation will be run in 3 languages: English, Spanish and Chinese Mandarin.
Schedule and Tasks
DONE |
IN PROGRESS |
FUTURE |
Task | start | end | Ongoing |
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Spanish | |||
Evaluation of Prosody | Done. |
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Evaluation of TTS component | Done. |
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Evaluation of voice conversion | Done. |
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English | |||
Evaluation of text processing | Done. |
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Chinese | |||
Evaluation of text processing | Done. |
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Evaluation of prosody | Done. |
Development Data
Data | Language | Files |
DTD Input of text processing module (M1 module) Input and of prosody module (M2 module) |
UK English | |
DTD Input of prosody module (M2 module) Input of acoustic module (M3 module) Input of TTS component |
Spanish | data/TTS/Run1/Spanish.zip |
DTD Input of text processing module (M1 module) Input of prosody module (M2 module) Input of acoustic module (M3 module) |
Chinese Mandarin | data/TTS/Run1/Chinese.zip |
TTS Participants
Participants/Modules | Text processing | Prosody Generation | TTS component | Intralingual VC |
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Nokia | CN | CN | ||
UPC | ES | ES | ||
Siemens | UK | ES |
TTS Results
Results are available here (access is restricted to participant only).
TTS Evaluation 1 Workshop Presentation in Krakow (23 Sept. 2005) is available here.