Blizzard Challenge 2007

The Blizzard Challenge 2007: Timeline

   Jan  23 2007  Blizzard Challenge 2007 Announcement
   Feb   2 2007  Participant registration deadline
   Feb  16 2007  Deadline for agreement for the use of the corpus
   Feb  23 2007  Database released
         (one month for training)
   Mar  23 2007  Test sentences released
         (one week for synthesis)
   Mar  30 2007  Deadline for the synthesized speech
         (two weeks for preparation of the evaluation web site)
   Apr  16 2007  Evaluation system goes live
         (one month for evaluation)
   May  14 2007  End of Evaluation
         (two weeks for gathering the scores)
   May  28 2007  Results distributed to teams
         (one month for writing paper)
   June 29 2007  Satellite workshop papers due
         (two weeks for review)
   July 16 2007  Notification of acceptance
   Aug  22-24 2007 6th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis in Bonn
   Aug 25 2007   Presentation of results at the satellite
                 workshop in Bonn