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* Download the [[media:Blizzard_2010_pre.pdf | Preliminary announcement and call for participation for the Blizzard Challenge 2010]] in PDF format. | * Download the [[media:Blizzard_2010_pre.pdf | Preliminary announcement and call for participation for the Blizzard Challenge 2010]] in PDF format. | ||
* Read and agree to the [[Blizzard Challenge 2010 Rules]] before participating. | |||
== Data download and license agreements == | == Data download and license agreements == | ||
Revision as of 22:24, 27 January 2010
Read these first
- Download the Preliminary announcement and call for participation for the Blizzard Challenge 2010 in PDF format.
- Read and agree to the Blizzard Challenge 2010 Rules before participating.
Data download and license agreements
- First, you must register by emailing blizzard@festvox.org
- Then, complete license agreements for the data, which can be found here:
- UK English database:
- the data license agreement can be completed online: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/roger_blizzard2009/
- if you want labels for the data, then you also need to complete the Unisyn lexicon license: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/unisyn/
- Mandarin database (including labels):
- download and print the license agreement from http://data.cstr.ed.ac.uk/blizzard2009/iFLYTEK_blizzard2009_license.pdf
- sign it, then email a scanned copy to blizzard@festvox.org (if that is not possible, fax it to Simon King on +44 131 650 6626)
- UK English database:
- Data download: You will be sent a username and password to download the data. These are the same for all downloads, and will be activated for each download after you have returned the corresponding license agreement.
- UK English database: http://data.cstr.ed.ac.uk/blizzard2009/english/roger
- UK English database optional labels: http://data.cstr.ed.ac.uk/blizzard2009/english/roger_festival_utterances
- Mandarin database: http://data.cstr.ed.ac.uk/blizzard2009/chinese
- Development tools:
- The source code for the telephone channel simulation tool is available from http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-G.191-200509-I/en and the exact pipeline of tools to run is specified in http://data.cstr.ed.ac.uk/blizzard2009/development_data.zip Many thanks to Marcel Waeltermann of Deutsche Telekom and Sebastian Moeller of TU Berlin for their help with this.
- Development data for the ES3 spoke task are provided in http://data.cstr.ed.ac.uk/blizzard2009/development_data.zip and some additional data are available from http://data.cstr.ed.ac.uk/blizzard2009/additional_development_data_ES3
- Questionnaire:
- Download the questionnaire, complete it, and return it by the deadline given in the Timeline. http://data.cstr.ed.ac.uk/blizzard2009/system_questionnaire.txt
