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Blizzard Challenge - Annual [| Text To Speach] generation contest and workshop where speech synthesis experts get together to talk about and compare their latest innovations. The aim is to better understand and compare research techniques in building corpus-based speech synthesizers on the same data. Competitors build a synthetic voice from a common, released speech database and synthesize a prescribed set of test sentences. The sentences from each synthesizer are then evaluated through listening tests by a large number of listeners. The event has taken place anually since 2005, mostly as a satellite event of Interspeech, but in 2007 under the auspices of the 6th Speech Synthesis Workshop. The first pair of events were run by CMU, Pittsburgh. More recently CSTR (Univ. Edinburgh) has taken over the role of organizing.