[hts-users:02898] Re: Blizzard Challenge 2010 Listening test now online

[Keiichi Tokuda <tokuda@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: Simon King <Simon.King@xxxxxxxx>
Date: 2011/6/21
Subject: [Blizzard] Re: Blizzard Challenge 2011 - online listening
test for speech synthesis
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message from Simon King <Simon.King@xxxxxxxx> to blizzard-discuss
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The Blizzard listening test finishes on Friday 25th June. If you
haven't taken part yet, please do so now.

On 30 May 2011, at 13:04, Simon King wrote:

> I am pleased to announce that this year's Blizzard Challenge listening test is now live. Please help us out by taking part, and encouraging your colleagues, students, friends, etc. to take part too. It's your chance to hear a range of speech synthesisers, including some really good ones. Please circulate this message widely.
>
> There are two starting URLs for the test
>
> For Speech Experts (i.e., you consider yourself an expert in speech synthesis or another area of speech science or technology):
> http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/blizzard/blizzard2011/english/registerexperts.html
>
> For everyone else:
> http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/blizzard/blizzard2011/english/registerweb.html
>
> thanks,
> Simon
>


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2010/6/2 Keiichi Tokuda <tokuda@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Here is the announcement about Blizzard Challenge listening test:
>
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> I'm pleased to announce that the listening tests for the Blizzard
> Challenge 2010 are now running. The Blizzard Challenge is an
> annual open speech synthesis evaluation in which participants
> build voices using common data, and a large listening test is
> used to compare them.  Participants include some of the leading
> commercial and academic research groups in the field.
>
> I would appreciate your help in getting as many listeners to
> participate as possible, by forwarding this message on to other
> lists, colleagues, students, and of course taking part yourself.
>
> The listening test should take 30-60 minutes to complete, and can
> be done in stages if you wish. You do not need to be a native
> speaker of the language in order to take part. There are 4
> different start pages for the listening test, as follows:
>
> For English:
>
>  Speech Experts:
> http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/blizzard/blizzard2010/english/register-ES.html
>
>  Volunteers: http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/blizzard/blizzard2010/english/register-ER.html
>
> For Chinese:
>
>  Speech Experts:
> http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/blizzard/blizzard2010/mandarin/register-MS.html
>
>  Volunteers: http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/blizzard/blizzard2010/mandarin/register-MR.html
>
> Whether you consider yourself a 'speech expert' is left to your
> own judgement.
>
> Remember - you don't have to be a native speaker to take part.
>
> Simon
>