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This was kind of the target of the 2016 Blizzard Challenge (http://festvox.org/blizzard/blizzard2016.html http://festvox.org/blizzard/blizzard2016.html), as the

This was kind of the target of the 2016 Blizzard Challenge (http://festvox.org/blizzard/blizzard2016.html http://festvox.org/blizzard/blizzard2016.html), as the training data was children's books (clean audio, 'reading voice' prosody, etc). Some of the voices that came out of that were incredible.

rightos 9y ago
Are any of those voices published? Would be interesting to try rendering audio books with them.
- michael_h 9y ago
  I'm not sure - the exact voices themselves generally aren't published, but the papers are detailed enough that you could recreate the system if you wanted.