Hi All:
I haven't looked at the page to see if it is accessible (I hope it is!),
but here's a chance for you to give feedback on the state-of-the-art in
speech synthesis being done by some of the best minds in the industry.
Who better to listen to this stuff than people who listen to speech
synthesis all day long?
BTW, I've done these tests in the past, and they can be quite
interesting. If they don't have a 'high speaking rate' test, maybe we
can influence them for next year's test? :-)
Will
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We're pleased to announce that the Blizzard 2008 listening test is now
available. We need your help in getting as many subjects as possible to
participate. There are different start pages for various listener types
- please take care to use the correct one:
English
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Speech experts:
http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/blizzard/blizzard2008/english/register-ES.html
Volunteers:
http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/blizzard/blizzard2008/english/register-ER.html
Mandarin
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Speech experts:
http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/blizzard/blizzard2008/mandarin/register-MS.html
Volunteers:
http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/blizzard/blizzard2008/mandarin/register-MR.html
Subjects do not need to be native speakers - we gather information about
this in the questionnaire at the end of the listening test. The
listening test can be completed in one session, or over multiple sessions.
If you speak both English and Mandarin, then you may participate in both
listening tests if you wish.
Please publicise this as widely as possible on your mailing lists,
blogs, web pages, or whatever. Also, please ensure that as many members
of your research group, other colleagues, students, family, etc
participate as possible! We need hundreds of subjects for each language.
Remember to direct them to the appropriate start page.
Note that we are also running several other listener groups for paid
subjects; if you would like to organise a group of paid subjects, then
please contact me. We can also set up groups for other specific
listener types, if we know there is a large enough pool of available
subjects with certain characteristics; contact me if you want to discuss
this.
Please report problems to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
regards,
Simon
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