VoxForge
The speech group at the university is running its annual ""Blizzard Challenge" to get feedback on progress in the quality of generated voices. From the festival-talk list:
The Blizzard Challenge listening test is now live: http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/blizzard/blizzard2016/english/register-er.html so please take part! We need your help in recruiting listeners - please circulate this on your local mailing lists, social media, and so on. If you consider yourself to be a “speech expert” then use this URL: http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/blizzard/blizzard2016/english/register-ee.html
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