The TC-STAR 2007 evaluation campaign will consider:
SLT in the following directions
a) Chinese-to-English (Broadcast News)
b) Spanish-to-English (European Parliament plenary speeches; Cortes Spanish Parliament speeches)
c) English-to-Spanish (European Parliament plenary speeches)
The SLT evaluation of European Parliament plenary speeches will cover three types of input:
1. ASR output (single best sentence, and more: N-best, word lattices)
2. verbatim transcription,
3. final text edition.
a) Complete TTS system: participants use their own training data or data provided by TC-STAR
b) Intra-lingual and cross-lingual voice conversion: data provided by TC-STAR
a) Chinese-to-English (Broadcast News)
b) Spanish-to-English (European Parliament plenary speeches; Cortes Spanish Parliament speeches)
c) English-to-Spanish (European Parliament plenary speeches)
The SLT evaluation of European Parliament plenary speeches will cover three types of input:
1. ASR output (single best sentence, and more: N-best, word lattices)
2. verbatim transcription,
3. final text edition.
ASR in the following languages
a) English (European Parliament plenary speeches)
b) Spanish (European Parliament plenary speeches; Cortes Spanish Parliament speeches)
c) Mandarin Chinese (Broadcast News)
a) Complete TTS system: participants use their own training data or data provided by TC-STAR
b) Intra-lingual and cross-lingual voice conversion: data provided by TC-STAR
For ASR, SLT and TTS, training data will be made available by the TC-STAR project for English and Spanish and can be purchased at LDC for Chinese. Development data will be provided by the TC-STAR project. Legal issues regarding the data will be detailed in the 2nd Call For Participation.
For detailed information on the on-going campaign, please visit the web site.