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== Data download and license agreements ==
== Data download and license agreements ==
# Register: by emailing blizzard@festvox.org
# Register: by emailing blizzard@festvox.org
# License: complete the license agreements for the data, which can all be accessed via http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/blizzard/
# License: complete the license agreement for the data, which can be accessed via http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/blizzard/
# 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. Download links can be found on the above page.
# Download: You will be sent a username and password to download the data. Download links can be found on the above page.


* Development tools, available via : http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/blizzard/, include:
* Development tools, available via : http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/blizzard/, include:

Revision as of 19:38, 25 February 2011

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Data download and license agreements

  1. Register: by emailing blizzard@festvox.org
  2. License: complete the license agreement for the data, which can be accessed via http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/blizzard/
  3. Download: You will be sent a username and password to download the data. Download links can be found on the above page.
  • Development tools, available via : http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/blizzard/, include:
    • Submitted synthetic speech and listener scores for some previous Blizzard Challenges, which may be helpful during development
    • Benchmark voices (under construction)

Mailing list

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

 blizzard-discuss@festvox.org

Participants must join the list by sending a message to majordomo@festvox.org with the following line in the body of the message

 subscribe blizzard-discuss

Once you a member you will be able to mail messages to blizzard-discuss@festvox.org


Timeline

The timeline shown on this web page is the offical one and supercedes those shown in announcements - it is subject to change, but we will try to follow it as closely as possible. Note that we will not consider any requests from participants to change the synthetic speech submission date or the paper submission date!

  Feb  25 2011 First databases released
  Aug 28-31 2011 Interspeech 2011, Florence, Italy
  Aug/Sep ?? Blizzard 2011 workshop, Italy (provisional)
  Feb ?? 2012 Second databases released (provisional)
  Sep 2-13 2012 Interspeech 2012, Portland, Oregon, USA
  Aug/Sep ?? 2012 Blizzard 2012 workshop, USA (provisional)

Workshop

Information on the workshops will be made available nearer the time.

Any questions?

  • Please contact blizzard@festvox.org if you have any questions


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