Dear All,

Zero Resource Speech Challenge 2019 is open (deadline 15.3.2019). Details and registration at http://www.zerospeech.com/2019 http://www.zerospeech.com/2019. Aim is to build a speech synthesizer without text or phonetic labels (TTS without T). Inspiration is taken from infants who learn to talk before they read or write. See more details below.

Best Laurent

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De: Emmanuel Dupoux <emmanuel.dupoux@gmail.com mailto:emmanuel.dupoux@gmail.com> Objet: Announcing the Zero Resource Speech Challenge 2019! Date: 15 décembre 2018 16:05:27 UTC+1 À: zerospeech2019@gmail.com mailto:zerospeech2019@gmail.com Cc: Juan Manuel Benjumea <jubenjum@gmail.com mailto:jubenjum@gmail.com>, Ewan Dunbar <ewan.dunbar@gmail.com mailto:ewan.dunbar@gmail.com>, Sakriani Sakti <ssakti@is.naist.jp mailto:ssakti@is.naist.jp>, lucas ondel <lucas.ondel@gmail.com mailto:lucas.ondel@gmail.com>, Mathieu Bernard <mmathieubernardd@gmail.com mailto:mmathieubernardd@gmail.com>, julien karadayi <julien.karadayi@gmail.com mailto:julien.karadayi@gmail.com>, Robin Algayres <rb.algayres@orange.fr mailto:rb.algayres@orange.fr>, Xuan Nga Cao <ngafrance@gmail.com mailto:ngafrance@gmail.com>, Laurent Besacier <laurent.besacier@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr mailto:laurent.besacier@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr>

Zero Resource Speech Challenge 2019: TTS without T

Dear Colleague,

We have the pleasure to announce the new iteration of the Zero Ressource Speech Challenge, which is submitted to Interspeech 2019. Its aim is to build a speech synthesizer without any text or phonetic labels (hence Text to Speech without T). We takes inspiration from young infants who learn to talk before they learn to read or write. Here, the task is to discover a pseudo-text (a sub-word symbolic representation internal to the machine), from raw speech, without any labels, and to use these discovered units to resynthesize new utterances in a target voice.

The Challenge is now open (deadline March 15, 2019). Details and registration at http://www.zerospeech.com/2019 http://www.zerospeech.com/2019.

The organizers Dunbar, E., Algayres, R., Benjumea, J., Karadayi, J., Cao, X-N., Bernard, M., Ondel, L., Besacier, L., Sakti, S., & Dupoux, E.

Note: The Challenge is a continuation of the 'sub-word unit discovery' task of previous ZeroSpeech challenges, and is open to everyone (including participants concentrating solely on sub-word unit discovery or solely on synthesis, as well as participants building complete end-to-end systems).

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Emmanuel Dupoux Directeur d'Etudes à l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales Research Scientist Facebook AI Research www.lscp.net/persons/dupoux http://www.lscp.net/persons/dupoux

Equipe Cognitive Machine Learning EHESS - ENS - CNRS - INRIA 29 rue d'Ulm, Paris 75005, France www.syntheticlearner.net http://www.syntheticlearner.net/

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