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Announcing the Hurricane Challenge



First announcement
  
        The Hurricane Challenge:
Improving the intelligibility of speech in noise

Do you have an algorithm for the modification of natural or synthetic speech which improves intelligibility in known noise conditions? If so, you are invited to take part in the Hurricane Challenge, a co-ordinated international evaluation of the intelligibility of modified speech.

You will be provided with a corpus of recorded sentences along with separate masker signals at a number of SNRs. Your task is to modify the speech only in such a way to promote its intelligibility. Modifications will be expected to meet constraints on changes in RMS level as well as durational constraints. Modified speech signals will be evaluated centrally by a large listener sample. Results of the Challenge will be disseminated at or around Interspeech 2013 in Lyon.

The deadline for expressing your intention to participate is 31st October 2012.

For more details, see the Challenge website:

   http://listening-talker.org/hurricane


Organisers:

 Martin Cooke, Ikerbasque 
 Catherine Mayo, University of Edinburgh
 Bastian Sauert, Aachen University
 Yannis Stylianou, FORTH Institute of Computer Science, Crete
 Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, University of Edinburgh
 Yan Tang, University of the Basque Country