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Speaker Corpora and Evaluation

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Speaker databases; SRE

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An organized collection of speech data designed to provide extensive examples of particular types of speech or to support research and development of systems for particular types of speech processing is typically referred to as a speech corpus (plural corpora). An alternative term is a speech database.

Speaker recognition refers to the challenge of determining from a given speech segment who is speaking. It may involve deciding which of a given set of n different known subjects is speaking. This is referred to as speaker identification and may be either closed set (must be one of the n) or open set (may be none of the known speakers). Alternatively, it may involve deciding whether or not one particular known speaker is speaking in a given speech segment. This may be referred to as speaker detection or speaker verification.

A speaker corpus refers to a collection of speech data (a speech corpus) containing multiple speakers and for each speaker...

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

    Alvin F. Martin

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  1. Center for Biometrics and Security, Research & National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Stan Z. Li

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

    Anil K. Jain

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Martin, A.F. (2015). Speaker Corpora and Evaluation. In: Li, S.Z., Jain, A.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Biometrics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7488-4_204

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