Blizzard Challenge 2010
From SynSIG
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 databases:
- the data license agreement can be completed online:
- 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
- the data license agreement can be completed online:
- Mandarin database (including labels):
- TBC
- UK English databases:
- 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.
- All databases: http://data.cstr.ed.ac.uk/blizzard2010
- 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
- Questionnaire:
- 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