Frequently Asked Questions

General Info regarding challenge

Ans) Enroll yourself by registering on this link: https://forms.gle/QAqL8Xwtvpc9A5e76

2. Whom to contact with any doubts regarding dataset/ tracks/ submission?

Ans) For any queries, you can email us at challenge.syspin@iisc.ac.in

3. How to access the challenge database?

Ans) To be updated.

4. Are there any eligibility criteria for applying?

Ans) No, anyone can apply.

5. If I register as a single individual, can I change to a team later?

Ans) No

6. Can we add more team members later?

Ans) Yes, you have to register again afresh with all your team members.

7. Any limit on the number of team members?

Ans) No

8. How many teams are allowed from an Organization?

Ans) No limit, but a single person should not be part of two teams

9. When will the track 2 and track 3 fine shot training samples be shared?

Ans) Shortly after baselines are shared

1. Who are eligible to submit a 2-page paper and present it at ICASSP-2024?

Ans) The challenge organizers will invite the top 5 ranked team from their leaderboard to submit the 2-page paper.

2. Can participants use external data to train the model?

Ans) Only opensourced extrernal data (along with challenge dataset) may be used for all tracks

3. Can we use own vocoders in all tracks?

Ans) Yes. Any vocoder can be used.

4. Can we use pretrained TTS models in all tracks?

Ans) Pretrained TTS models can be used in all tracks.

5. Should we use all of the data shared as part of challenge?

Ans) No. The duration per speaker (greater than zero) to be used is up to the participants.

6. Should we train multi-lingual models or mono-lingual model for the required target speaker combination?

Ans) We expect all submissions to be multi-lingual models.

1. Will the synthesised audio be resampled for subjective evaluation

Ans) Yes. All subjective evaluation will be done on 16Khz audio. The shared samples will be resampled using sox.

10. When will the reference files for inference be shared?

Ans) The reference files will be shared once evaluation begins

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