[hts-users:03565] Announcing the Blizzard Challenge 2013
I am delighted to call for participation in the Blizzard Challenge 2013. This is an open evaluation of corpus-based speech synthesis systems using common datasets and a large listening test.
This year we have two equally-exciting parts to the challenge. The first part involves synthesis of English based on very large audiobook corpora. The second part involves 4 Indian languages, and is the pilot phase for the Blizzard Challenge 2014.
Please download the full Call for Participation from http://www.synsig.org/index.php/Blizzard_Challenge_2013
Registration is open now, and data will be released on January 15th.
regards,
Simon King
on behalf of the committee: Simon King, Alan W. Black, Keiichi Tokuda and Kishore Prahallad
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