[hts-users:04386] Call for participation in the Blizzard Challenge 2016
- Subject: [hts-users:04386] Call for participation in the Blizzard Challenge 2016
- From: Simon King <simon.king@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 21:22:47 +0000
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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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