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Speaker Databases and Evaluation

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Introduction

Expanding interest in the use of biometrics for security purposes has brought increasing attention to the use of speech as a biometric. Speech fits naturally into the list of likely biometric modalities. It is an activity engaged in by essentially everyone, and is one of the primary means by which people identify those whom they know.

But speaker recognition has not heretofore been seen as among the most useful biometrics for general security applications. There has been a much more developmental effort on the use of face, fingerprint, and iris. Recognition of speakers by voice has been seen as more of a niche application, largely because of the special difficulties associated with the collection of quality speech input, and perhaps because of a particular advantage may offer.

This introduction briefly discusses some key issues related to speaker recognition as a biometric. In the following section some of the main databases that have been used for speaker recognition...

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  1. National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA

    Alvin F. Martin

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  1. Center for Biometrics and Security Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Stan Z. Li (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Departments of Computer Science & Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

    Anil Jain (Professor) (Professor)

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Martin, A.F. (2009). Speaker Databases and Evaluation. In: Li, S.Z., Jain, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Biometrics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73003-5_204

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