ICAGC 2024: Inspirational and Convincing Audio Generation Challenge 2024

Ruibo Fu, Rui Liu, Chunyu Qiang, Yingming Gao, Yi Lu, Shuchen Shi, Tao Wang, Ya Li, Zhengqi Wen, Chen Zhang, Hui Bu, Yukun Liu, Xin Qi, Guanjun Li

Abstract: The Inspirational and Convincing Audio Generation Challenge 2024 (ICAGC 2024) is part of the ISCSLP 2024 Competitions and Challenges track. While current text-to-speech (TTS) technology can generate high-quality audio, its ability to convey complex emotions and controlled detail content remains limited. This constraint leads to a discrepancy between the generated audio and human subjective perception in practical ap-plications like companion robots for children and marketing bots. The core issue lies in the inconsistency between high-quality audio generation and the ultimate human subjective ex-perience. Therefore, this challenge aims to enhance the persua-siveness and acceptability of synthesized audio, focusing on human alignment convincing and inspirational audio generation. A total of 19 teams have registered for the challenge, and the results of the competition and the competition are described in this paper.