We are delighted to call for participation in the Blizzard Challenge 2020. 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 both Mandarin Chinese and Shanghainese speech datasets, each from a single native speaker. The two tasks involve building voices from this data. Please read the full announcement and the rules at:
http://www.synsig.org/index.php/Blizzard_Challenge_2020
Please register by following the instructions on the web page, then wait for your registration to be accepted before completing the data license.
Important: please send all communications about Blizzard to the official address blizzard@xxxxxxxxxxx and not to our personal addresses.
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Regards,
Zhenhua Ling & Simon King
steering committee: Alan Black, Keiichi Tokuda, Simon King