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Registration and license agreement

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. Complete the license for Indian language data, which can be accessed via http://wissap.iiit.ac.in/blizzard2015/

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 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    2015  -  databases to be released
  Apr 21    2015  -  test sentences released to participants
  Apr 28    2015  -  participants submit synthetic speech (by midnight PDT)
  May       2015  -  evaluation systems go live
  Jun 30    2015  -  end of evaluation period
  Jul 15    2015  -  release of results 
  Aug  1    2015  -  deadline to submit workshop papers
  Aug 7     2015  -  notification of acceptance
  Sep 6     2015  -  Interspeech 2015, Germany

Workshop

Information on the workshop can be found here: Blizzard Challenge 2015 Workshop

Any questions?

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