Joint Workshop for the Blizzard Challenge and Voice Conversion Challenge 2020

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The Joint Workshop for the Blizzard Challenge and Voice Conversion Challenge 2020 is a satellite workshop of Interspeech2020.

Call for participation

The Joint Workshop for the Blizzard Challenge and Voice Conversion Challenge 2020 is the culmination of the Blizzard Challenge 2020 and the Voice Conversion Challenge 2020. Blizzard Challenge is an annual challenge to compare corpus-based speech synthesis on common databases and has history of 15 years. Voice Conversion Challenge is a biannual challenge to compare different voice conversion systems and approaches using the same voice data. This is a joint workshop of the sixteenth edition of the Blizzard challenge and third edition of the Voice Conversion Challenge. The aims of the workshop are to present the results from the listening tests and for participants in both challenges to describe their systems.

Who can attend the workshop ?

The workshop is open to all and we encourage participation from anyone interested in speech synthesis and voice conversion. However, please follow the registration procedure below.

Who can submit a paper to the workshop ?

All participants in the Blizzard Challenge 2020 are required to submit a paper describing their entry. All participants in the Voice Conversion Challenge 2020 are invited to submit one paper that summarizes their system and shows some results. The paper submission instructions can be found at Blizzard Challenge 2020 Rules #PAPER and VCC2020 website.

Organizers of the Blizzard Challenge 2020

  • Zhenhua Ling (University of Science and Technology of China)
  • Simon King (University of Edinburgh)

Organizers of the Voice Conversion Challenge 2020

  • Tomoki Toda & Wen-Chin Huang (Nagoya University)
  • Junichi Yamagishi & Yi Zhao (National Institute of Informatics)
  • Tomi Kinnunen (University of Eastern Finland)
  • Zhenhua Ling (University of Science and Technology of China)
  • Rohan Kumar Das & Xiaohai Tian (National University of Singapore)

Location and date

Online event

Date: Friday 30th October 2020

More details will be announced soon.

Registration

To be announced

Programme (Tentative)

The workshop will be held online using Zoom. The meeting ID and password will be sent to registered participants later. There will be two formats of presentation, Live Oral Presentation and Pre-Recorded Video Presentation. The duration of each presentation is listed in the tentative program below.

  • 18:00 - 18:15 Live Oral Presentation
    • The Blizzard Challenge 2020
  • 18:15 - 19:00 Live Oral Presentations (15 mins each including 5 mins Q&A)
    • The SHNU System for Blizzard Challenge 2020
    • The OPPO System for the Blizzard Challenge 2020
    • The Tencent speech synthesis system for Blizzard Challenge 2020
  • 18:15 - 19:00 Pre-Recorded Video Presentations (2.5 mins each plus 7.5 mins Q&A)
    • The Duke Entry for 2020 Blizzard Challenge
    • Submission from SCUT for Blizzard Challenge 2020
    • NUS-HLT System for Blizzard Challenge 2020
    • The Sogou System for Blizzard Challenge 2020
    • The RoyalFlush Synthesis System for Blizzard Challenge 2020
    • The Ximalaya TTS System for Blizzard Challenge 2020
    • The HITSZ TTS system for Blizzard challenge 2020
    • The NLPR Speech Synthesis entry for Blizzard Challenge 2020
    • The Ajmide Text-To-Speech System for Blizzard Challenge 2020
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