Blizzard Challenge 2013

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.