We are delighted to call for participation in the Blizzard Challenge 2014. This is an open evaluation of corpus-based speech synthesis systems using common datasets and a large listening test.
This year we uses datasets from six Indian languages: Assamese, Gujarati, Hindi, Rajasthani, Tamil and Telugu, recorded by professional speakers in high quality studio environments to build monolingual and multilingual synthesis systems. These speech databases are provided by the group of institutions: IIIT Hyderabad, IIT Madras, DAIICT, SSN College of Engineering, IIT Mandi and IIT Guwahati.
Please download the full Call for Participation from
Registration is open now, and data is released on Feb 15, 2014.
Best Regards,
Kishore Prahallad
on behalf of the committee: Kishore Prahallad, Hema A. Murthy, Simon King, Alan W. Black, Keiichi Tokuda
Best Regards,
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Dr. Kishore Prahallad, Associate Professor, IIIT-Hyderabad, Gachibowli, India.