Subject: [AUDITORY] First VoicePrivacy Challenge at Interspeech 2020 From: Md Sahidullah <sahidullahmd@xxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 13:27:51 +0100 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>--000000000000aa462e059e4bfc87 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable [Apologies for cross-posting] 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= .pdf The 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.org Registration: 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@xxxxxxxx with =E2=80=98VoicePrivacy 2020 registration=E2=80=99 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@xxxxxxxx with =E2=80=9Csubscribe 2020=E2=80=9D= 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@xxxxxxxx Best regards, The VoicePrivacy 2020 Challenge Organizers, Jean-Fran=C3=A7ois Bonastre - University of Avignon - LIA, France Nicholas Evans - EURECOM, France Fuming Fang - NII, Japan Andreas Nautsch - EURECOM, France Paul-Gauthier No=C3=A9 - University of Avignon - LIA, France Jose Patino - EURECOM, France Md Sahidullah - Inria, France Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava - Inria, France Natalia Tomashenko - University of Avignon - LIA, France Massimiliano Todisco - EURECOM, France Emmanuel Vincent - Inria, France Xin Wang - NII, Japan Junichi Yamagishi - NII, Japan and University of Edinburgh, UK --=20 Md Sahidullah website: *https://sites.google.com/site/iitkgpsahi/ <https://sites.google.com/site/iitkgpsahi/>* --000000000000aa462e059e4bfc87 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr"><div>[Apologies for cross-posting]<span style=3D"color:rgb= (80,0,80)"><br></span></div><div><br></div><span style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80= )">Dear colleagues,</span><br style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)"><br style=3D"col= or:rgb(80,0,80)"><span style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)">The registration for th= e First VoicePrivacy Challenge is open now!</span><br style=3D"color:rgb(80= ,0,80)"><br style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)"= >The VoicePrivacy 2020 Challenge Evaluation Plan is available on the=C2=A0<= /span><br style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)">C= hallenge website:=C2=A0</span><br style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)"><a href=3D"h= ttps://www.voiceprivacychallenge.org/docs/VoicePrivacy_2020_Eval_Plan_v1_1.= pdf" rel=3D"noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">https://www.voiceprivacychallenge= .org/docs/VoicePrivacy_2020_Eval_Plan_v1_1.pdf</a><br style=3D"color:rgb(80= ,0,80)"><br style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)"><br style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)"><= span style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)">The VoicePrivacy initiative is spearheadi= ng the effort to develop=C2=A0</span><br style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span= style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)">privacy preservation solutions for speech tec= hnology. It aims to gather=C2=A0</span><br style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)"><sp= an style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)">a new community to define the task and metr= ics and to benchmark initial=C2=A0</span><br style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)"><= span style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)">solutions using common datasets, protocol= s and metrics. VoicePrivacy=C2=A0</span><br style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)"><s= pan style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)">takes the form of a competitive challenge.= The challenge is to develop=C2=A0</span><br style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)"><= span style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)">anonymization solutions which suppress pe= rsonally identifiable=C2=A0</span><br style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span st= yle=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)">information contained within speech signals. At = the same time, solutions=C2=A0</span><br style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span= style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)">should preserve linguistic content and speech= quality/naturalness. The=C2=A0</span><br style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)"><spa= n style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)">challenge will conclude with a session/event= held in conjunction with=C2=A0</span><br style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)"><spa= n style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)">Interspeech 2020 at which challenge results = will be made publicly available.</span><br style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)"><br= style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)">Please fin= d more information about on the challenge website:=C2=A0</span><br style=3D= "color:rgb(80,0,80)"><a href=3D"http://www.voiceprivacychallenge.org/" rel= =3D"noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">http://www.voiceprivacychallenge.org</a><= br style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)"><br style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)"><br style= =3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)">Registration:</s= pan><br style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)"><br style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span= style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)">Participants/teams are requested to register = for the evaluation.=C2=A0</span><br style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span styl= e=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)">Registration should be performed once only for eac= h participating entity=C2=A0</span><br style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span s= tyle=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)">and by sending an email to:=C2=A0</span><a href= =3D"mailto:organisers@xxxxxxxx" target=3D"_blank">or= ganisers@xxxxxxxx</a><br style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)= "><span style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)">with =E2=80=98VoicePrivacy 2020 regist= ration=E2=80=99 as the subject line. The mail body=C2=A0</span><br style=3D= "color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)">should include: (i)= the name of the team; (ii) the name of the contact=C2=A0</span><br style= =3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)">person; (iii) th= eir country; (iv) their status (academic/nonacademic).</span><br style=3D"c= olor:rgb(80,0,80)"><br style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span style=3D"color:rg= b(80,0,80)">Subscription:</span><br style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)"><br style= =3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)">Participants are= encouraged to subscribe to the VoicePrivacy 2020=C2=A0</span><br style=3D"= color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)">mailing list by send= ing an email to:=C2=A0</span><br style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)"><a href=3D"ma= ilto:sympa@xxxxxxxx" target=3D"_blank">sympa@xxxxxxxx= oiceprivacychallenge.org</a><span style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)">=C2=A0with = =E2=80=9Csubscribe 2020=E2=80=9D as the=C2=A0</span><br style=3D"color:rgb(= 80,0,80)"><span style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)">subject line. Successful regis= trations are confirmed by return email.</span><br style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,8= 0)"><br style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)">To = post messages to the mailing list itself, emails should be addressed=C2=A0<= /span><br style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)">t= o:=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"mailto:2020@xxxxxxxx" targ= et=3D"_blank">2020@xxxxxxxx</a><br style=3D"color:rg= b(80,0,80)"><br style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)"><br style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80= )"><span style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)">Best regards,</span><br style=3D"colo= r:rgb(80,0,80)"><br style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span style=3D"color:rgb(8= 0,0,80)">The VoicePrivacy 2020 Challenge Organizers,</span><br style=3D"col= or:rgb(80,0,80)"><br style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span style=3D"color:rgb(= 80,0,80)">Jean-Fran=C3=A7ois Bonastre - University of Avignon - LIA, France= </span><br style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)">= Nicholas Evans - EURECOM, France</span><br style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)"><sp= an style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)">Fuming Fang - NII, Japan</span><br style=3D= "color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)">Andreas Nautsch - E= URECOM, France</span><br style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span style=3D"color:= rgb(80,0,80)">Paul-Gauthier No=C3=A9 - University of Avignon - LIA, France<= /span><br style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)">J= ose Patino - EURECOM, France</span><br style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span s= tyle=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)">Md Sahidullah - Inria, France</span><br style= =3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)">Brij Mohan Lal S= rivastava - Inria, France</span><br style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span styl= e=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)">Natalia Tomashenko - University of Avignon - LIA, = France</span><br style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span style=3D"color:rgb(80,0= ,80)">Massimiliano Todisco - EURECOM, France</span><br style=3D"color:rgb(8= 0,0,80)"><span style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)">Emmanuel Vincent - Inria, Franc= e</span><br style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)"= >Xin Wang - NII, Japan</span><br style=3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span style= =3D"color:rgb(80,0,80)">Junichi Yamagishi - NII, Japan and University of Ed= inburgh, UK</span><br clear=3D"all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir=3D"ltr" = class=3D"gmail_signature" data-smartmail=3D"gmail_signature"><div dir=3D"lt= r"><div><div dir=3D"ltr"><div><div dir=3D"ltr"><div><div dir=3D"ltr"><div d= ir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr"><font face=3D"comic sans ms, s= ans-serif" size=3D"2" color=3D"#000000">Md Sahidullah</font><div><font face= =3D"comic sans ms, sans-serif" size=3D"2" color=3D"#000000">website:=C2=A0<= /font><font color=3D"#0000ee" face=3D"comic sans ms, sans-serif" size=3D"2"= ><u><a href=3D"https://sites.google.com/site/iitkgpsahi/" target=3D"_blank"= >https://sites.google.com/site/iitkgpsahi/</a></u></font></div></div></div>= </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div> --000000000000aa462e059e4bfc87--