Subject: Announcing the Hurricane Challenge From: Martin Cooke <m.cooke@xxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 11:51:00 +0100 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>--Apple-Mail=_466CAB2C-2B3B-40A5-945A-2F747B01DA71 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii First announcement =20 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=20 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= --Apple-Mail=_466CAB2C-2B3B-40A5-945A-2F747B01DA71 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii <html><head></head><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; = -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; = "><div>First announcement</div><div> </div><div> = The Hurricane Challenge:</div><div>Improving the = intelligibility of speech in noise<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>The = deadline for expressing your intention to participate is 31st October = 2012.<br><br>For more details, see the Challenge = website:<br><br> <a = href=3D"http://listening-talker.org/hurricane">http://listening-talker.org= /hurricane</a><br><br><br>Organisers:</div><div><br> Martin Cooke, = Ikerbasque <br> Catherine Mayo, University of = Edinburgh<br> Bastian Sauert, Aachen University<br> Yannis = Stylianou, FORTH Institute of Computer Science, Crete<br> Cassia = Valentini-Botinhao, University of Edinburgh<br> Yan Tang, = University of the Basque Country</div></body></html>= --Apple-Mail=_466CAB2C-2B3B-40A5-945A-2F747B01DA71--