{"id":39,"date":"2026-01-01T00:00:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T00:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/?page_id=39"},"modified":"2026-04-02T23:05:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:05:22","slug":"criteria","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/challenge\/criteria\/","title":{"rendered":"The Criteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re judging each submission based on four key criteria, each worth 25% of the overall submission score. Each criterion will be judged by one or more experts:<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 30%\"><strong>Criterion<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 70%\"><strong>Assessment<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 30%\"><strong>Voice similarity<\/strong>: how similar do the submission voices sound to the Agent Luke and Chris Nemesis reference samples?<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 70%\"><strong>Wespeaker<\/strong>: Automatic speaker recognition measure \u2013 12.5%<br \/>\n<strong>Dr Georgina Brown<\/strong>: Forensic Speech Scientist \u2013 12.5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 30%\"><strong>Naturalness<\/strong>: how natural, spontaneous, and human-like is the speech and conversation?<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 70%\"><strong>Dr Justin Lo<\/strong>: Forensic Speech Scientist \u2013 12.5%<br \/>\n<strong>Prof Beatrice Szczepek-Reed<\/strong>: Conversation Analyst \u2013 12.5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 30%\"><strong>Content<\/strong>: does the submission contain (a) Chris urging the door guards to let Luke in, and (b) Luke referencing a childhood memory supposedly shared with Chris?<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 70%\"><strong>Dr Lena Podoletz<\/strong>: Criminologist \u2013 12.5%<br \/>\n<strong>Prof Claire Hardaker<\/strong>: Forensic Linguist \u2013 12.5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 30%\"><strong>Creative flair<\/strong>: to what extent does the submission show creative flair and careful attention to detail in enhancing the realism of the interaction?<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 70%\"><strong>Dr Georgina Brown<\/strong>: Forensic Speech Scientist \u2013 5%<br \/>\n<strong>Dr Justin Lo<\/strong>: Forensic Speech Scientist \u2013 5%<br \/>\n<strong>Dr Lena Podoletz<\/strong>: Criminologist \u2013 5%<br \/>\n<strong>Prof Beatrice Szczepek-Reed<\/strong>: Conversation Analyst \u2013 5%<br \/>\n<strong>Prof Claire Hardaker<\/strong>: Forensic Linguist \u2013 5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>How do you know your submissions will be judged by experts? Read more about <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/challenge\/panel\/\">The Panel<\/a> next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re judging each submission based on four key criteria, each worth 25% of the overall submission score. Each criterion will be judged by one or more experts: Criterion Assessment Voice similarity: how similar do the submission voices sound to the Agent Luke and Chris Nemesis reference samples? Wespeaker: Automatic speaker recognition measure \u2013 12.5% Dr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"parent":31,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-39","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39\/revisions\/98"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/hackacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}