Participation

Request access

The evaluation audio is real Hong Kong contact-centre recordings, so it sits behind an account rather than a public download. Requests are reviewed within one business day.

Edition: Cantonese Voice Benchmark 2026.1
Window: Qualification Round
Closes: 30 Sept, 23:59 HKT
Entrants: 10

Before you decide

What entering actually costs you.

Every step below is either yours or ours. During ours you can close the laptop — nothing is waiting on you. Durations appear only where we publish one; the rest we have never measured, so we do not print a number.

Ask for access
One form. A company name, a work email, and a sentence on what you have built.
We issue an account
A person reads your request. That is the vetting, and the only review there is.
1 business day
Set your own password
The account exists with none until you do. Nobody here holds a credential for it.
Register an endpoint
A WebSocket URL you run. We are the client — nothing of yours is handed over.
Wire up recognition
The only large block of your time in the whole thing. Everything else you do is minutes.
2–3 hours
We test the connection
Three real clips, streamed and scored, with a readable diagnosis if anything fails.
about 10 seconds
Practise
Against the sample set, with per-clip diffs against ground truth. No effect on your score.
unlimited
Apply
What you have built, and which pillars you enter — two is a complete entry. Approved the moment you send it, and scored runs open for those pillars.
Write the system description
What you built, what you trained, where the humans are. Six questions to work down.
1–2 pages
One-wayFinal once submitted
We score a run
Clips drawn at random from the rotation pool, on the pillars you applied for. A run we break costs you nothing.
3 per window
One-waySpends one of three
Read your result
Per-clip record, every failure attributed. Dispute it if you think the number is wrong.

One afternoon of engineering, one business day of waiting, and minutes for everything else.

There is a second form, and both are needed

Cyberport registers every entrant for the programme itself — the briefings, the showcase day and the certificate. That is their form, not ours, and we cannot fill it in for you. Do it now if you can: an account here without a Cyberport registration is an entry that cannot be presented at the end.

Open Cyberport’s registration form

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