Blizzard Challenge 2013

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Data download and license agreements

  1. Register: by emailing blizzard@festvox.org. We need to know your team name, the name of the main contact person, your affiliation, and contact details including email address, postal address and phone number. Please state which datasets you want to download and which tasks you are planning to submit entries to (this is non-binding, but is helpful for our planning).
  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

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 are 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!

  Jan 15 2013 Databases released
  Mar 2013 - test sentences released to participants
  Mar 2013 - participants submit synthetic speech
  Apr 2013 - main evaluation system goes live (standard MOS, SIM, WER tests)
  Jun 2013- end of evaluation period
  Jul 2013 - participants submit their workshop papers
  Aug 25-29 2013 Interspeech 2013, Lyon, France
  Aug 31 - Sep 2 2013 SSW8, Barcelona, Spain
  Sep 3 2013 Blizzard 2013 workshop, Barcelona, Spain

Workshop

Information on the workshop can be found here: Blizzard Challenge 2013 Workshop

Any questions?

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

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