Blizzard Challenge 2023 Workshop
Call for participation
The Blizzard Challenge 2023 Workshop is the culmination of the Blizzard Challenge 2023. Blizzard Challenge is an annual challenge to compare corpus-based speech synthesis on common databases and a large listening test. The aims of the workshop are to present the results from the listening tests and for participants in the Challenge 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. However, please follow the registration procedure below.
Who can submit a paper to the workshop ?
All participants in the Blizzard Challenge 2023 are required to submit a paper describing their entry. The paper submission instructions can be found at Blizzard Challenge 2023 Rules #PAPER.
Organizers of the Blizzard Challenge 2023
- Olivier Perrotin & Gérard Bailly (Université Grenoble Alpes)
- Simon King (University of Edinburgh)
Location and date
Venue: Same as SSW12 https://ssw2023.org/index.php/venue/
- Maison de la Création et de l’Innovation – MaCI
- 339 Av. Centrale, 38400 Saint-Martin-d’Hères
- Grenoble, France
Date: Tuesday 29th August 2023
Registration
- If you are registered for SSW12 then you may attend the Blizzard Challenge 2023 without further registration - simply bring your SSW12 badge with you.
- If you are attending the Blizzard Challenge 223 without registering for SSW12, please email blizzard-challenge-organisers@googlegroups.com to register.
Programme
- We will have Live Oral Presentation for all teams that physically attend the workshop. The duration of each presentation is 15 min (half presentation, half Q&A).
- We will watch Pre-recorded videos from all teams that cannot physically attend the workshop. The duration of each presentation is 6 min (3 min video + 3 min Q&A).
The full program with team slots will be given according to the pending confirmation of attendance of some teams. We will try to keep the beginning and end time of the day unchanged. All times below are in Paris time (GMT+2).
- 09:00 - 10:00 | Welcome message and Summary of Blizzard Challenge 2023 (Presenter: Olivier Perrotin)
- 10:00 - 10:30 | System presentations: FastSpeech-based models (live - 2 * 15 min)
- 10:30 - 11:00 | Break
- 11:00 - 11:45 | System presentations: FastSpeech-based models (live - 3 * 15 min)
- 11:45 - 12:00 | System presentations : FastSpeech- and Tacotron-based models (remote - 2 * 6 min)
- 12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch
- 13:30 - 14:30 | System presentations: Tacotron-based models (live - 4 * 15 min)
- 14:30 - 15:00 | Break
- 15:00 - 16:00 | System presentations: Stochastic models (live and remote)
- 16:00 - 16:30 | Closing
Published proceedings
TBA
