Blizzard Challenge 2014

Read these first

• First, please read the Call for Participation in the Blizzard Challenge 2014 in PDF format
• Read and agree to the Blizzard Challenge 2014 Rules before participating
• You should only register for the challenge if you actually plan to submit an entry to the challenge

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!

  Feb 15 2014 - databases to be released
  Apr 15 2014 - test sentences released to participants
  Apr 21 2014 - participants submit synthetic speech
  May    2014 - evaluation systems go live
  Jun 30 2014 - end of evaluation period
  Aug  9 2014 - deadline to submit workshop papers
  Aug 15 2014 - notification of acceptance
  Sep 14-18 2014 Interspeech 2014, Singapore
  Sep 19 2014 - Blizzard Challenge 2014 Workshop, Singapore

Any questions?

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

Previous challenges

• Blizzard Challenge 2013
• Blizzard Challenge 2012
• Blizzard Challenge 2011
• Blizzard Challenge 2010
• Blizzard Challenge 2009
• Blizzard Challenge 2008
• Blizzard Challenge 2007
• Blizzard Challenge 2006 papers and results: http://www.festvox.org/blizzard/blizzard2006.html
• Blizzard Challenge 2005 papers and results: http://www.festvox.org/blizzard/blizzard2005.html