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[[Blizzard Challenge organisation]] describes how the challenge is organised, who runs it and tells you how you can get involved.
[[Blizzard Challenge organisation]] describes how the challenge is organised, who runs it and tells you how you can get involved.


[[Blizzard Challenge Roadmap]] (UNDER CONSTRUCTION) is a long-term plan for the challenge, setting out some possible future challenges. This plan will be updated from time to time and your input is very welcome.
[[Blizzard Challenge Roadmap]] shows the full history and future plan for the challenge. The plan is updated annually and your input is very welcome.


=== Mailing list ===
=== Mailing list ===


There is a mailing list for discussion and announcements for the challenge:
There is a Google Group for discussion and announcements for the challenge:


   blizzard-discuss@festvox.org
   https://groups.google.com/g/blizzard-challenge-discuss/


Participants must join the list by sending a message to majordomo@festvox.org with the following line in the body of the message
Participants '''must''' join this group in order to receive information about the Challenge. You need to log in to a Google account, then request to join. If you do not have a Google account, you will need to create one.


  subscribe blizzard-discuss
== The annual challenges ==
 
[[Blizzard Challenge 2023]]
 
Blizzard Challenge 2022 - not run this year
 
[[Blizzard Challenge 2021]]
 
[[Blizzard Challenge 2020]]
 
[[Blizzard Challenge 2019]]
 
[[Blizzard Challenge 2018]]


Once you a member you will be able to mail messages to blizzard-discuss@festvox.org
[[Blizzard Challenge 2017]]


== The annual challenges ==
[[Blizzard Challenge 2016]]


[http://festvox.org/blizzard/blizzard2005.html Blizzard Challenge 2005]
[[Blizzard Challenge 2015]]


[http://festvox.org/blizzard/blizzard2006.html Blizzard Challenge 2006]
[[Blizzard Challenge 2014]]


[[Blizzard Challenge 2007]]
[[Blizzard Challenge 2013]]


[[Blizzard Challenge 2008]]
[[Blizzard Challenge 2012]]


[[Blizzard Challenge 2009]]
[[Blizzard Challenge 2011]]


[[Blizzard Challenge 2010]]
[[Blizzard Challenge 2010]]


[[Blizzard Challenge 2011]]
[[Blizzard Challenge 2009]]
 
[[Blizzard Challenge 2008]]


[[Blizzard Challenge 2012]]
[[Blizzard Challenge 2007]]


[[Blizzard Challenge 2013]] is open for discussion - get involved by sharing your ideas on the mailing list.
[http://festvox.org/blizzard/blizzard2006.html Blizzard Challenge 2006]


[http://festvox.org/blizzard/blizzard2005.html Blizzard Challenge 2005]


== Tools and data ==
== Tools and data ==


The tools for running your own Blizzard-style listening test and the submissions and listening test results from several previous Challenges are available for your own research. Please remember to acknowledge Blizzard whenever you publish work that makes use of these tools or data.
The tools for running your own Blizzard-style listening test and the submissions and listening test results from several previous Challenges are available for your own research. Please remember to acknowledge Blizzard whenever you publish work that makes use of these tools or data. The corpora used in a few of the previous Challenges are also available.


[http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/blizzard/ Tools and data]
[http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/blizzard/ Tools and data]

Latest revision as of 19:58, 12 January 2023

In order to better understand and compare research techniques in building corpus-based speech synthesizers on the same data, the Blizzard Challenge has been devised. The basic challenge is to take the released speech database, build a synthetic voice from the data and synthesize a prescribed set of test sentences. The sentences from each synthesizer are then evaluated through listening tests.

General information

Blizzard Challenge organisation describes how the challenge is organised, who runs it and tells you how you can get involved.

Blizzard Challenge Roadmap shows the full history and future plan for the challenge. The plan is updated annually and your input is very welcome.

Mailing list

There is a Google Group for discussion and announcements for the challenge:

 https://groups.google.com/g/blizzard-challenge-discuss/

Participants must join this group in order to receive information about the Challenge. You need to log in to a Google account, then request to join. If you do not have a Google account, you will need to create one.

The annual challenges

Blizzard Challenge 2023

Blizzard Challenge 2022 - not run this year

Blizzard Challenge 2021

Blizzard Challenge 2020

Blizzard Challenge 2019

Blizzard Challenge 2018

Blizzard Challenge 2017

Blizzard Challenge 2016

Blizzard Challenge 2015

Blizzard Challenge 2014

Blizzard Challenge 2013

Blizzard Challenge 2012

Blizzard Challenge 2011

Blizzard Challenge 2010

Blizzard Challenge 2009

Blizzard Challenge 2008

Blizzard Challenge 2007

Blizzard Challenge 2006

Blizzard Challenge 2005

Tools and data

The tools for running your own Blizzard-style listening test and the submissions and listening test results from several previous Challenges are available for your own research. Please remember to acknowledge Blizzard whenever you publish work that makes use of these tools or data. The corpora used in a few of the previous Challenges are also available.

Tools and data