Blizzard Challenge Roadmap

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In recent years, the Blizzard Challenge changes task every 2 years, and each new task is introduced in pilot form for 1 year before it starts. Here's the picture so far, and the plan for the future (if any):

Year US English UK English Mandarin Indian languages Header text
2005 ARCTIC
2006 ATR 5000 utterance male
2007 ATR 8 hour male
2008 Edinburgh 15 hour male ('Roger') Chinese Academy of Sciences 6.5 hour female
2009 Same as 2008 iFLYTEK 6000 utterance female ('WJ')
2010 Phonetic Arts 5 hour male ('rjs') + Edinburgh 1 hour ARCTIC male ('roger') Same as 2008 plus 2.5 hours extra
2011

EH1: Lessac 12000 utterance female ('Nancy')
ES1: as above, for address-reading domain
pilot: Librivox data from 2012

2012

EH2.1 Librivox XX hour male (John Greenman)
EH2.2 devise a method for evaluation

2013

2013-EH1: Lessac 300 hour female (Catherine 'Bobbie' Byers)
2013-EH2: 19 subset of the above

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