The Blizzard Challenge 2020

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Xiao Zhou, Zhen-Hua Ling, Simon King

Published: 01 Jan 2020, Last Modified: 30 Sept 2024Blizzard Challenge / Voice Conversion Challenge 2020EveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY-SA 4.0
Abstract: The Blizzard Challenge 2020 is the sixteenth annual Blizzard Challenge. The challenge this year includes a hub task of synthesizing Mandarin speech and a spoke task of synthesizing Shanghainese speech. The speech data of these two Chinese dialects as well as corresponding text transcriptions were provided. Sixteen and eight teams participated in the two tasks respectively. Listening tests were conducted online to evaluate the performance of synthetic speech.