Blizzard Challenge 2020

From SynSIG

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The organising committee this year is led by Zhenhua Ling from USTC with assistance from The University of Edinburgh.

Registration

Register by emailing blizzard@festvox.org. We need to know your

  • preferred team name
  • affiliation (e.g., the name of your University and lab, or your Company)
  • the name of the main contact person
  • contact details:
    • email address of the main contact person
    • postal address
    • phone number

Data download

Complete the licence and download the data - only available to registered participants in the challenge, so please wait for your registration to be accepted before completing the license.

Development tools

Questionnaire

  • A questionnaire is included with the test materials. Please complete and include it within your submission.

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 official one and supersedes 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!

The dates of Interspeech are final and correct. The workshop date is currently provisional.

  Feb 10    2020 - challenge announcement and registration open
  Feb 20    2020 - database released
  Apr 20    2020 - test sentences released to participants
  Apr 30    2020 - deadline for participants to submit synthetic speech (midnight AoE)
  May 04    2020 - last date for payment of the entry fee
  Jun       2020 - evaluation systems go live
  Jul 12    2020 - end of the evaluation period
  Jul 24    2020 - release of results
  Aug 03    2020 - deadline to submit workshop papers (midnight AoE)
  Aug 10    2020 - notification of acceptance
  Sep 14-18 2020 - Interspeech 2020, Shanghai, China
  Sep 19    2020 - planned date for the Blizzard Challenge workshop, Shanghai, China

Workshop

Information on the workshop will appear here in due course: Blizzard Challenge 2020 Workshop

Any questions?

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

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