Inspirational and Convincing Audio Generation Challenge 2024

ICAGC 2024


Registration form[Google Docs]：https://forms.gle/vgpWTZMK8noacC3GA

Challenge Email：icagc2024@iscslp2024.com

Challenge Website：http://www.iscslp2024.com/Icagc


About ICAGC 2024 Challenge

The Inspirational and Convincing Audio Generation Challenge 2024 (ICAGC 2024) is part of the ISCSLP 2024 Competitions and Challenges track. While current text-to-speech (TTS) technology can generate high-quality audio, its ability to convey complex emotions and controlled detail content remains limited. This constraint leads to a discrepancy between the generated audio and human subjective perception in practical applications like companion robots for children and marketing bots. The core issue lies in the inconsistency between high-quality audio generation and the ultimate human subjective experience. Therefore, this challenge aims to enhance the persuasiveness and acceptability of synthesized audio, focusing on human alignment convincing and inspirational audio generation.


Challenge Tracks

Track 1 - Inspirational Emotion Modulation

Competitors are required to clone the voice of the target speakers and modulate the cloned voice to express the several specified themes. For the testing set, ten paragraph-level texts will be provided. Participants must generate each text in the test set with the cloned voice, modulating proper inspirational emotion for each theme, and submit the corresponding audio files.

Track 2 - Convincing Background Audio and Speech Fusion Generation

Objective: On the basis of the synthesized voices from Track 1, use background audio generation technology (TTA) to add realistic background sounds to make the audio more lifelike and convincing to real-life scenarios.

Challenge Ranks and Rewards


Challenge Timeline (AOE)



Organizers


Please refer to the webpage for detailed information on the Challenge.

http://www.iscslp2024.com/Icagc


WeChat Group(left) for Challenge Participants：

If you are unable to join the WeChat group, please follow the official ISCSLP2024 WeChat public account of ISCSLP2024(right) and reply “ICAGC” to obtain the way to join the group.（Both methods join the same WeChat Group.）