The CMU Arctic databases designed for the purpose of speech synthesis research. These single speaker speech databases have been carefully recorded under studio conditions and consist of approximately 1200 phonetically balanced English utterances. In addition to wavefiles, the databases provide complete support for the Festival Speech Synthesis System, including pre-built voices that may be used as is. The entire package is distributed as free software, without restriction on commercial or noncommercial use.
Cite as: Kominek, J., Black, A.W. (2004) The CMU Arctic speech databases. Proc. 5th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis (SSW 5), 223-224
@inproceedings{kominek04b_ssw,
author={John Kominek and Alan W. Black},
title={{The CMU Arctic speech databases}},
year=2004,
booktitle={Proc. 5th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis (SSW 5)},
pages={223--224}
}