Blizzard Challenge 2010

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 database:
    • the data license agreement can be completed online: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/roger_blizzard2009/
    • if you want labels for the data, then you also need to complete the Unisyn lexicon license: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/unisyn/
  • Mandarin database (including labels):
    • download and print the license agreement from http://data.cstr.ed.ac.uk/blizzard2009/iFLYTEK_blizzard2009_license.pdf
    • sign it, then email a scanned copy to blizzard@festvox.org (if that is not possible, fax it to Simon King on +44 131 650 6626)

• 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.
  • UK English database: http://data.cstr.ed.ac.uk/blizzard2009/english/roger
  • UK English database optional labels: http://data.cstr.ed.ac.uk/blizzard2009/english/roger_festival_utterances
  • Mandarin database: http://data.cstr.ed.ac.uk/blizzard2009/chinese

• Development tools:
  • The source code for the telephone channel simulation tool is available from http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-G.191-200509-I/en and the exact pipeline of tools to run is specified in http://data.cstr.ed.ac.uk/blizzard2009/development_data.zip Many thanks to Marcel Waeltermann of Deutsche Telekom and Sebastian Moeller of TU Berlin for their help with this.
  • Development data for the ES3 spoke task are provided in http://data.cstr.ed.ac.uk/blizzard2009/development_data.zip and some additional data are available from http://data.cstr.ed.ac.uk/blizzard2009/additional_development_data_ES3

• Questionnaire:
  • Download the questionnaire, complete it, and return it by the deadline given in the Timeline. http://data.cstr.ed.ac.uk/blizzard2009/system_questionnaire.txt