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This is now a regular series of challenges. The latest one is the [[Blizzard Challenge 2007]]. Descriptions of, and publications from, previous challenges can currently be found on [http://festvox.org/blizzard the Festvox site].
This is now a regular series of challenges. The latest one is the [[Blizzard Challenge 2007]]. Descriptions of, and publications from, previous challenges can currently be found on [http://festvox.org/blizzard the Festvox site].
[[Category:Blizzard Challenge]]

Revision as of 10:33, 27 August 2007

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 will then be evaluated through listening tests.

This is now a regular series of challenges. The latest one is the Blizzard Challenge 2007. Descriptions of, and publications from, previous challenges can currently be found on the Festvox site.