Blizzard Challenge 2010

From SynSIG

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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:
  • 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:
    • Submitted synthetic speech and listener scores are available for some previous Blizzard Challenges, which may be helpful during development: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/blizzard/
    • Benchmark voices for the 2010 databases are under preparation using Festival and HTS; development sentences (the Blizzard 2009 test set) will be synthesised with these systems and made available shortly:
      • HTS benchmark for task EH1: TBC
      • Festival benchmark for task EH1: TBC
      • HTS benchmark for task MH1: TBC

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!

TO DO

Workshop

Information on the workshop will be available later.

Any questions?

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


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