[hts-users:04433] Call for participation in the Blizzard Challenge 2017
- Subject: [hts-users:04433] Call for participation in the Blizzard Challenge 2017
- From: KING Simon <Simon.King@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 15:30:54 +0000
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- Thread-topic: Call for participation in the Blizzard Challenge 2017
We are delighted to call for participation in the Blizzard Challenge 2017. This is an open evaluation of corpus-based speech synthesis systems using common datasets and a large listening test.
This year, the task once again involves children’s audiobooks in British English. Please read the full announcement and the rules at:
http://www.synsig.org/index.php/Blizzard_Challenge_2017
The data have now been released (there is some new data added to last year’s release), 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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