Blizzard Challenge Roadmap
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 | Other |
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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') |
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2012 |
EH2.1 Librivox XX hour male (John Greenman) |
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2013 |
2013-EH1: Lessac 300 hour female (Catherine 'Bobbie' Byers) |
2013-IH1 pilot for 2014-IH1.x tasks (1 hour each of Hindi, Bengali, Kannada and Tamil)|| | |||
2014 |
2014-IH1.1 (Assamese) |
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2015 |
2015-EH1 pilot for 2016-EH1 (2 hours data) |
2015-IH1.1 to 6 Hindi, Tamil and Telugu - 4 hours Marathi, Bengali and Malayalam - 2 hours 2015-IH2.1 to 6 as above, but test sentences contain some English |
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2016 |
2016-EH1 Usborne children's audiobooks 5 hour female (Lesley Sims) |
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2017 | ? |
2017-EH1 same as 2016-EH1 + X hours more data |
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2018 | |||||
2019 |