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[hts-users:04386] Call for participation in the Blizzard Challenge 2016


We are delighted to call for participation in the Blizzard Challenge 2016. This is an open evaluation of corpus-based speech synthesis systems using common datasets and a large listening test.

This year, the task involves children’s audiobooks in British English. Please read the full announcement and the rules at:

http://www.synsig.org/index.php/Blizzard_Challenge_2016

The data have now been released, so please register as soon as possible, following the instructions on the web page, then complete the data license.

Important: please send all communications about Blizzard to the official address <blizzard@xxxxxxxxxxx> and not to our personal addresses.

Please feel free to distribute this announcement on other relevant mailing lists.

regards,
Simon King

on behalf of the committee: Simon King, Alan W. Black, and Keiichi Tokuda

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