TC-Star Evaluation Workshop

The TC-STAR 2006 evaluation campaign will consider:

• SLT in the following directions


• Chinese-to-English (Broadcast News)
• Spanish-to-English (European Parliament plenary speeches)
• English-to-Spanish (European Parliament plenary speeches)


• ASR in the following languages


• English (European Parliament plenary speeches)
• Spanish (European Parliament plenary speeches)
• Mandarin Chinese (Broadcast News)


• TTS in Chinese, English, and Spanish under the following conditions:


• Complete system: participants use their own training data
• Voice conversion (intralingual and crosslingual), expressive speech with data provided by TC-STAR
• Component evaluation



For ASR and SLT, 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.

• For detailed information on the on-going campaign, please visit the web site.