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Blizzard Challenge 2013 (Blizzard Challenge 2013 - English language tasks)
The English data for voice building was obtained, prepared and provided the the challenge by Lessac Technologies Inc., having originally came from the publishers Voice Factory International Inc. It comprises speech from one female professional narrator & actress, Catherine ‘Bobbie’ Byers, reading the text of a collection of classic novels. These had been divided by the publishers of the original audiobooks into a number of genres, such as “Classic Novels”, “Women’s Classics”, “Young Readers” and so on.
Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28
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| First row (archive order) | Paper | Code | ||||
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| Speech Synthesis | Blizzard Challenge 2013 | SampleRNN (3-tier) NLL 1.387 | SampleRNN: An Unconditional End-to-End Neural Audio... | soroushmehr/sampleRNN_ICLR2017 +3 | 2 | Compare |
Papers archive 2025-07-28
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| Date | Samples run Syntology | |||
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| SampleRNN: An Unconditional End-to-End Neural Audio Generation Model | 4 | 2 | 22 Dec 2016 | ran 0 of 11 samples (11 unverified) |
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Variants archive 2025-07-28
- Blizzard Challenge 2013
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