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* First, you must register by emailing blizzard@festvox.org
* First, you must register by emailing blizzard@festvox.org
* Then, complete license agreements for the data, which can be found here:
* Then, complete license agreements for the data, which can be found here:
** UK English database:
** UK English databases:
*** the data license agreement can be completed online: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/roger_blizzard2009/
*** the data license agreement can be completed online:
*** 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/
**** Tasks EH1, ES1, ES2: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/phonetic_arts_blizzard2010/
**** Task EH2: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/roger_blizzard2010/
*** if you want labels for either or both English databases, then you also need to complete the Unisyn lexicon license as explained on the above download pages
** Mandarin database (including labels):
** Mandarin database (including labels):
*** download and print the license agreement from http://data.cstr.ed.ac.uk/blizzard2009/iFLYTEK_blizzard2009_license.pdf
*** TBC
*** 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)


* 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.
* 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
** All databases: http://data.cstr.ed.ac.uk/blizzard2010
** 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:
* 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.
** Benchmark voices are under preparation using Festival and HTS; development sentences (the Blizzard 2009 test set) will be synthesised with these systems and made available to participants during the voice building period
** 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:
* 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
** Download the questionnaire, complete it, and return it by the deadline given in the Timeline. http://data.cstr.ed.ac.uk/blizzard2010/system_questionnaire.txt

Revision as of 21:27, 27 January 2010

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Data download and license agreements

  • 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.
  • Development tools:
    • Benchmark voices are under preparation using Festival and HTS; development sentences (the Blizzard 2009 test set) will be synthesised with these systems and made available to participants during the voice building period
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