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[hts-users:04667] Hurricane Challenge 2.0 - registration open


Hello Everyone

It is our pleasure to announce and invite you to participate in the second Hurricane Challenge!

As in the previous challenge presented at Interspeech 2013, Hurricane 2.0 addresses algorithms for the modification of natural speech or text-to-speech to improve intelligibility in known noise and room conditions.

This challenge will focus on more realistic background noises, reverberant rooms and of course recent advances in speech intelligibility enhancement.

Participants will be provided with a corpus of recorded sentences in three languages (English, German, Spanish) along with separate noise signals at a number of SNRs as well as room impulse responses.

The task is to modify the clean speech to promote its intelligibility in noise, under constraints on changes in RMS level and duration.

Modified speech signals will be evaluated by a large pool of native speakers in each of the three languages.

Results of the Challenge are intended to be disseminated either at a Special Session of Interspeech 2020 or at a satellite workshop, and will be returned to participants well before the Interspeech 2020 paper deadline.

To register send an email to hurricane2.0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with your team name, the type of entry you wish to submit (natural speech or text-to-speech), the name of the main contact person, your affiliation, and your contact details (email address).

The deadline for expressing your intention to participate is:

*31st October 2019*.

For more details, see the Challenge website:

https://hurricane-challenge.inf.ed.ac.uk/
and reach out to us via email:

hurricane2.0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Please forward this invitation to participate to colleagues who may be interested.

We are looking forward to your participation!

Best regards
The organizing team Jan, Henning, Martin, Cassia

ps. --- apologies for cross-posting —



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