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Evaluating the Santa Barbara Corpus: Challenges of the Breadth of Conversational Spoken Language
conversational speech, diarization, speech recognition
As speech technology has matured, there has been a push to-
wards systems that can process conversational speech, reflect-
ing the so-called "cocktail party problem," which includes not
only more challenging acoustic conditions, but also necessi-
tates solutions to new problems, such as identifying who spoke
when and processing multiple concurrent streams of speech.
Such problems have been approached primarily via corpora
comprising business meetings and dinner parties, overlooking
the broad range of conversational dynamics and speaker de-
mographics that fall under the category of multi-talker speech.
To this end, we introduce the use of the Santa Barbara Corpus
of Spoken American English for evaluation of speech technol-
ogy-including preparing the corpus and annotations for auto-
matic processing, demonstrating the failure of state-of-the-art
systems to withstand the heterogeneity of conditions, and high-
lighting the situations where standard methods struggle to per-
form at all
@inproceedings{BUT193741,
author="MACIEJEWSKI, M. and KLEMENT, D. and HUANG, R. and WIESNER, M. and KHUDANPUR, S.",
title="Evaluating the Santa Barbara Corpus: Challenges of the Breadth of Conversational Spoken Language",
booktitle="Proceedings of Interspeech 2024",
year="2024",
journal="Proceedings of Interspeech",
volume="2024",
number="9",
pages="2155--2160",
publisher="International Speech Communication Association",
address="Kos",
doi="10.21437/Interspeech.2024-2119",
issn="1990-9772",
url="https://www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_2024/maciejewski24_interspeech.pdf"
}