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Dear colleagues,The registration for the First VoicePrivacy Challenge is open now!The VoicePrivacy 2020 Challenge Evaluation Plan is available on the Challenge website: https://www.voiceprivacychallenge.org/docs/VoicePrivacy_2020_Eval_Plan_v1_1.pdfThe VoicePrivacy initiative is spearheading the effort to develop privacy preservation solutions for speech technology. It aims to gather a new community to define the task and metrics and to benchmark initial solutions using common datasets, protocols and metrics. VoicePrivacy takes the form of a competitive challenge. The challenge is to develop anonymization solutions which suppress personally identifiable information contained within speech signals. At the same time, solutions should preserve linguistic content and speech quality/naturalness. The challenge will conclude with a session/event held in conjunction with Interspeech 2020 at which challenge results will be made publicly available.Please find more information about on the challenge website: http://www.voiceprivacychallenge.orgRegistration:Participants/teams are requested to register for the evaluation. Registration should be performed once only for each participating entity and by sending an email to: organisers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxwith ‘VoicePrivacy 2020 registration’ as the subject line. The mail body should include: (i) the name of the team; (ii) the name of the contact person; (iii) their country; (iv) their status (academic/nonacademic).Subscription:Participants are encouraged to subscribe to the VoicePrivacy 2020 mailing list by sending an email to: sympa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with “subscribe 2020” as the subject line. Successful registrations are confirmed by return email.To post messages to the mailing list itself, emails should be addressed to: 2020@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxBest regards,The VoicePrivacy 2020 Challenge Organizers,Jean-François Bonastre - University of Avignon - LIA, FranceNicholas Evans - EURECOM, FranceFuming Fang - NII, JapanAndreas Nautsch - EURECOM, FrancePaul-Gauthier Noé - University of Avignon - LIA, FranceJose Patino - EURECOM, FranceMd Sahidullah - Inria, FranceBrij Mohan Lal Srivastava - Inria, FranceNatalia Tomashenko - University of Avignon - LIA, FranceMassimiliano Todisco - EURECOM, FranceEmmanuel Vincent - Inria, FranceXin Wang - NII, JapanJunichi Yamagishi - NII, Japan and University of Edinburgh, UK
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