We are delighted to call for participation in the Blizzard Challenge
2019. This is an open evaluation of corpus-based speech synthesis
systems using common datasets and a large listening test.
This year, the challenge will provide about 8 hours of Mandarin Chinese
speech data from an internet talk show. All data are from a single
speaker. The task is to build a voice from this data that is suitable
for expressive TTS. Please read the full announcement and the rules at:
http://www.synsig.org/index.php/Blizzard_Challenge_2019
Please register by 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 to other relevant
mailing lists.
Regards,
Zhizheng Wu
on behalf of the organizing committee for 2019: Zhizheng Wu, Sébastien
Le Maguer, João Cabral, Simon King
and the steering committee: Alan Black, Keiichi Tokuda, Simon King