Blizzard Challenge 2019

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  • Please do not try to register for this challenge yet - we will open the call very soon !

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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

TBC

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!

Dates of Interspeech, SSW and the workshop are final and correct for the 2019 challenge.

  Feb 11    2019  -  database released
  Apr 22    2019  -  test sentences released to participants
  Apr 30    2019  -  participants submit synthetic speech and questionnaire (by midnight UTC)
  May       2019  -  evaluation systems go live
  Jun 15    2019  -  end of the evaluation period
  Jul  1    2019  -  release of results 
  Jul 13    2019  -  deadline to submit workshop papers
  Jul 30    2019  -  notification of acceptance
  Sep 15-19 2019  -  Interspeech 2019, Graz, Austria
  Sep 20-22 2019  -  SSW10, Vienna, Austria
  Sep 23    2019  -  Blizzard Challenge workshop, Vienna, Austria

Workshop

Information on the workshop can be found here: Blizzard Challenge 2019 Workshop

Any questions?

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

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