Blizzard Challenge 2017

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Registration

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.

Data download

The speech + text data comes from professional audiobooks produced by Usborne Publishing.

Development tools

Questionnaire

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!

  Dec ??    2016  -  database released
  Mar ??    2017  -  test sentences released to participants
  Apr ??    2017  -  participants submit synthetic speech and questionnaire (by midnight UTC)
  Apr       2017  -  evaluation systems go live
  Jun       2017  -  end of evaluation period
  Jul       2017  -  release of results 
  Aug ??    2017  -  deadline to submit workshop papers
  Aug ??    2017  -  notification of acceptance
  Aug 20-24 2017  -  Interspeech 2017, Stockholm, Sweden
  Aug 25    2017  -  Blizzard Challenge workshop, Stockholm (date and location provisional)

Workshop

Information on the workshop can be found here: Blizzard Challenge 2017 Workshop

Any questions?

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

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