Call for participation: LIMMITS'24 - ICASSP 2024 Grand Challenge

[Sathvik Udupa]

Hello,

Greetings from the LIMMITS’24 Organising team!

We are announcing the next edition of the LIMMITS challenge titled “LIMMITS'24: Voice cloning for multi-speaker multilingual Indic TTS”. This challenge is being proposed to be organised as part of the Signal Processing Grand Challenge at ICASSP 2024 which aims at the development of voice cloning for a multi-speaker, multilingual Text to Speech (TTS) model. This is a continuation of the LIMMITS (Lightweight, Multi-Speaker, Multi-Lingual Indic Text-to-Speech) challenge as a part of SPGC in ICASSP 2023. As part of LIMMITS’24, TTS data of 320 hours will be released in Bengali, Chhattisgarhi, English and Kannada languages. This is in addition to Telugu, Hindi and Marathi data released in the last challenge. Each language will have a male as well as a female speaker, resulting in a TTS corpus of 7 languages and 14 speakers. TTS corpora in these languages are being built as a part of the SYSPIN project at SPIRE lab, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore, India.

The challenge aims towards helping and encouraging the advancement of TTS in Indian Languages and making further progress in TTS+VC. The challenge is to build TTS models by utilizing the released speech data and performing zero-shot and few-shot voice cloning. The output from each synthesizer will be evaluated through extensive listening tests. 

Flyer: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zD4XDSrAgZWsE6piivitbiTTkRNbOxnU/view?usp=drive_link

Please visit our webpage for more details : 

https://sites.google.com/view/limmits24

If you are interested to participate in this challenge, you can register through : 

https://forms.gle/FwjNqdBCf6HsDYaX9

Looking forward to your participation in LIMMITS’24!

Regards

LIMMITs’24 Organizing Team