The Blizzard Challenge 2011

The Blizzard Challenge 2011 was the seventh annual Blizzard Challenge which was again organised by the University of Ed- inburgh with assistance from the other members of the Blizzard Challenge committee - Prof. Keiichi Tokuda and Prof. Alan Black. One English corpus was used: the 'Nancy' corpus provided by Lessac Technologies. In commone with previous challenges, participants had the option of using labels that were provided for the corpus and for the test sentences. Index Terms: Blizzard Challenge, speech synthesis, evaluation, listening test