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SdSV Challenge 2020: Large-Scale Evaluation of Short-duration Speaker Verification

ZEINALI Hossein, LEE Kong Aik, ALAM Jahangir and BURGET Lukáš. SdSV Challenge 2020: Large-Scale Evaluation of Short-duration Speaker Verification. In: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH. Shanghai: International Speech Communication Association, 2020, pp. 731-735. ISSN 1990-9772. Available from: https://www.isca-speech.org/archive/Interspeech_2020/pdfs/1485.pdf
Czech title
SdSV Challenge 2020: široká evaluace ověřování mluvčího na krátkých segmentech řeči
Type
conference paper
Language
english
Authors
Zeinali Hossein (AUT.IR)
Lee Kong Aik (A*STAR)
Alam Jahangir (CRIM)
Burget Lukáš, doc. Ing., Ph.D. (DCGM FIT BUT)
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Keywords

Speaker Recognition, Benchmark, Shortduration, Evaluation

Abstract

Modern approaches to speaker verification represent speech utterances as fixed-length embeddings. With these approaches, we implicitly assume that speaker characteristics are independent of the spoken content. Such an assumption generally holds when sufficiently long utterances are given. In this context, speaker embeddings, like i-vector and x-vector, have shown to be extremely effective. For speech utterances of short duration (in the order of a few seconds), speaker embeddings have shown significant dependency on the phonetic content. In this regard, the SdSV Challenge 2020 was organized with a broad focus on systematic benchmark and analysis on varying degrees of phonetic variability on short-duration speaker verification (SdSV). In addition to text-dependent and text-independent tasks, the challenge features an unusual and difficult task of cross-lingual speaker verification (English vs. Persian). This paper describes the dataset and tasks, the evaluation rules and protocols, the performance metric, baseline systems, and challenge results. We also present insights gained from the evaluation and future research directions.

Published
2020
Pages
731-735
Journal
Proceedings of Interspeech - on-line, vol. 2020, no. 10, ISSN 1990-9772
Proceedings
Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH
Conference
Interspeech, Shanghai, CN
Publisher
International Speech Communication Association
Place
Shanghai, CN
DOI
UT WoS
000833594100152
EID Scopus
BibTeX
@INPROCEEDINGS{FITPUB12379,
   author = "Hossein Zeinali and Aik Kong Lee and Jahangir Alam and Luk\'{a}\v{s} Burget",
   title = "SdSV Challenge 2020: Large-Scale Evaluation of Short-duration Speaker Verification",
   pages = "731--735",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH",
   journal = "Proceedings of Interspeech - on-line",
   volume = 2020,
   number = 10,
   year = 2020,
   location = "Shanghai, CN",
   publisher = "International Speech Communication Association",
   ISSN = "1990-9772",
   doi = "10.21437/Interspeech.2020-1485",
   language = "english",
   url = "https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/12379"
}
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