REPORT Honnet_Idiap-RR-03-2017/IDIAP The SIWIS French Speech Synthesis Database ? Design and recording of a high quality French database for speech synthesis Honnet, Pierre-Edouard Lazaridis, Alexandros Garner, Philip N. Yamagishi, Junichi EXTERNAL http://publications.idiap.ch/attachments/reports/2017/Honnet_Idiap-RR-03-2017.pdf PUBLIC Idiap-RR-03-2017 2017 Idiap February 2017 We describe the design and recording of a high quality French speech corpus, aimed at building TTS systems, investigate multiple styles, and emphasis. The data was recorded by a French voice talent, and contains about ten hours of speech, including emphasised words in many different contexts. The database contains more than ten hours of speech and is freely available.