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We're excited for you to get started! Here are some resources to help you along the way:


1. Ready to Start? Check Competition Rules and Different Tasks

Once you are ready to start you can read about the competition rules, the different tasks and how submissions will be evaluated.


2. Play Around With the Data and Different Tasks

You can play around with the data and check the different tasks using our tutorials:

  1. Speech Detection
    Open in Colab
  2. Phoneme Classification (updated for Phase 2!)
    Open in Colab

3. Prepare Submission

When ready to submit, check out the tutorials to see how to generate a submission file:

  • Phase 2: How to generate a Phoneme Classification submission
    Open in Colab
  • Phase 1 (over!): How to generate a Speech Detection submission
    Open in Colab

4. Submit on EvalAI

After obtaining your predictions in CSV format, submit them by following these steps:

  1. Create an account on EvalAI.
  2. Go to the challenge page.
  3. Click on participate and create a participant team.
  4. Select appropriate phase and upload your predictions by selecting Upload file as submission type.

Additionally, we recommend having a look at the EvalAI documentation on participating in a challenge.


5. Check Performance on Leaderboards

You can then check the evaluation metrics and the leaderboards to see how your solution is performing.


If you have any questions or need help, please check our Discord server or send us your questions to: libribrain@robots.ox.ac.uk