Like most of our projects, the question behind HackaCon is simple:

Can we use AI to convincingly synthesise a natural, spontaneous-sounding human conversation between two specific speakers?

No really. That’s it. So we’re running this conversation hackathon – a competition to find out the state-of-the-art of AI-generated conversation. To play, you need to register, and if you top the leaderboard, there’s a prize in it for you.

You might think, “That’s ridiculous… We already have speech synthesis. We even have conversational AI. This will be easy!”

But it very much isn’t. Allow us to convince you.

If you already know how tough this could be and you’re up for it, jump directly to The Challenge.