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The Voice Timbre Attribute Detection 2025 Challenge Evaluation Plan

Sound 2025-06-24 v2 Artificial Intelligence Audio and Speech Processing

Abstract

Voice timbre refers to the unique quality or character of a person's voice that distinguishes it from others as perceived by human hearing. The Voice Timbre Attribute Detection (VtaD) 2025 challenge focuses on explaining the voice timbre attribute in a comparative manner. In this challenge, the human impression of voice timbre is verbalized with a set of sensory descriptors, including bright, coarse, soft, magnetic, and so on. The timbre is explained from the comparison between two voices in their intensity within a specific descriptor dimension. The VtaD 2025 challenge starts in May and culminates in a special proposal at the NCMMSC2025 conference in October 2025 in Zhenjiang, China.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2505.09382,
  title  = {The Voice Timbre Attribute Detection 2025 Challenge Evaluation Plan},
  author = {Zhengyan Sheng and Jinghao He and Liping Chen and Kong Aik Lee and Zhen-Hua Ling},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.09382},
  year   = {2025}
}
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