Dear List, It is our pleasure to announce and invite you to participate in the second *Hurricane Challenge*! As the previous challenge presented at Interspeech 2013, Hurricane 2.0 addresses algorithms for the modification of natural or synthetic speech to improve intelligibility in known noise and room conditions. This challenge will focus on more realistic background noises, reverberant rooms and of course recent advances in speech enhancement. Participants will be provided with a corpus of recorded sentences in three languages (German, English, Spanish) along with separate noise signals at a number of SNRs as well as room impulse responses. The task is to modify the speech to promote its intelligibility under constraints on changes in RMS level and duration. Modified speech signals will be evaluated centrally by large native listener samples in each of the three languages. Results of the Challenge are intended to be disseminated either at a Special Session of Interspeech 2020 or at a satellite workshop, and will be returned to participants well before the Interspeech 2020 paper deadline. The deadline for expressing your intention to participate is *31st October 2019*. For more details, see the Challenge website https://hurricane-challenge.inf.ed.ac.uk/ and reach out to us via email: hurricane2.0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Please forward this invitation to participate to colleagues who may be interested. We are looking forward to your participation! Best regards The organizing team Jan, Henning, Martin, Cassia ps. --- apologies for cross-posting --- -- -- Dr. rer. nat. Jan Rennies-Hochmuth Head of Personalized Hearing Systems Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT Branch Hearing, Speech and Audio Technology HSA Marie-Curie-Strasse 2 26129 Oldenburg, Germany Phone +49 441 2172-433 Fax +49 441 2172-450 Mobile +49 176 22043331 mailto: jan.rennies-hochmuth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.idmt.fraunhofer.de/hsa--
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