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Voice AI hackathons, sponsor prizes and research challenges students can enter — ElevenHacks, MLH hackathons and Interspeech challenges.
ElevenLabs · A season of weekly online hackathons — a new challenge each week, with free credits to build with.
Hackathons are the fastest way to turn what you've learned into a project people see. ElevenLabs runs ElevenHacks, a season of weekly online hackathons with free credits to build with, and Major League Hacking student hackathons include a prize for the best project built with ElevenLabs. If you're heading into research, the Interspeech challenges set shared tasks on topics like speech quality and speaker verification, with results presented at the conference. Most of these run in seasons, so check each page for the next round.
Yes. ElevenHacks runs online voice AI hackathons in seasons, and Major League Hacking student hackathons include a Best Use of ElevenLabs prize. Devpost also lists online and in-person hackathons year-round.
Shared research tasks run alongside the Interspeech conference, such as speech quality assessment and multilingual speaker verification. Students and researchers can take part, and results are presented at Interspeech.
Major League Hacking · A sponsor prize category at Major League Hacking student hackathons for the best project built with ElevenLabs.
Interspeech (ISCA) · Shared research tasks run with the Interspeech conference — e.g. speech quality assessment, audio reasoning and multilingual speaker verification.
ICASSP 2027 Grand Challenge · An ICASSP 2027 Grand Challenge to detect deepfake speech after it has passed through real-time communication platforms.
Cisco · ICASSP 2027 Grand Challenge · The second Low-Resource Audio Codec Challenge, an ICASSP 2027 Grand Challenge on neural speech codecs that run with limited compute.
ICASSP 2027 Satellite Challenge · An ICASSP 2027 satellite challenge to work out who spoke, when and what they said, using a mobile robot's onboard cameras and microphones.
Blizzard Challenge · SSW14 · The long-running speech synthesis benchmark; in 2027 it targets accented zero-shot TTS for spontaneous Brazilian and European Portuguese.
CHiME Steering Group · The tenth CHiME challenge on speech separation, enhancement and recognition in hard real-world conditions, with three tasks announced.
IWSLT 2027 · Shared tasks on spoken language translation for IWSLT 2027 (17–22 Aug 2027, Kyoto). Three of the tasks accept submissions year-round right now.
Bridge2AI-Voice (NIH) · A yearly symposium and hackathon on voice as a health biomarker; the 2027 edition is set for 17–19 May 2027 in St. Petersburg, Florida.