Last year the Blizzard Challenge 2005 introduced the speech synthesis community to the concept of large scale, multi-site evaluation of TTS systems using common data. In this, the second year of the Blizzard Challenge, we again tackled this task. Participation increased dramatically, out of a total of 17 initial sites that showed interest, a total of 14 sites from around the world actually
... [Show full abstract] submitted entries. In this paper we discuss the results, difficulties, and differences in this year's Challenge.