The Blizzard Challenge

Data and tools from previous Blizzard Challenges: 2008-2019

Various data and tools are available. Please carefully check the terms of use for each item - some items have restrictions on commercial use, for example.

Tools and listening test results
- The tools we use for running the Blizzard Challenge listening test
- Submissions and listening test results from several previous Blizzard Challenges
Data sets
Software
- 2013 - The Lessac front end used in the Blizzard Challenge 2013
Models
- 2013 - The models used for the 2013-EH2 extension conducted in 2023. To access these models, you need to obtain a license for The English audiobook data for the Blizzard Challenge 2013 as listed above, then use the same credentials. (paper under review)

For reference, the licenses for some of the previous corpora used in the Blizzard Challenge, but that are no longer available for download, can be found here:

2008 - The British English 'roger' corpus
2009 - The British English 'roger' corpus
2010 - The British English 'rjs' corpus
2010 - The British English 'roger' corpus
2010 - The Mandarin Chinese corpus

More information can be found on the official Blizzard Challenge website.

Contact: Simon King.