The Blizzard Challenge

Downloads for the latest Blizzard Challenge: 2013

• The English audiobook data for the Blizzard Challenge 2013

Data and tools from previous Blizzard Challenges: 2008-2012

Various data and tools relating to the current and previous Blizzard Challenges are available. Please check the terms of use for each item, before downloading it.

• Tools for running the Blizzard Challenge
• Submissions and listening test results from previous Blizzard Challenges
• The data for the Blizzard Challenge 2011 for tasks EH1 and ES1 - this is still available for download, even if you did not participate in the challenge
• The data for Phase One of the Blizzard Challenge 2012
• The data and development set for Phase Two of the Blizzard Challenge 2012

For reference, the licenses for some of the previous corpora used in the Blizzard Challenge can be found here:

• The British English 'roger' corpus used in 2008
• The British English 'roger' corpus used in 2009
• The British English 'rjs' corpus used in 2010
• The British English 'roger' corpus used in 2010
• The Mandarin Chinese corpus used in 2010
• The US English corpus used in 2011 (this corpus is still available for use)

More information can be found on the official Blizzard Challenge website.

Contact: Simon King.

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