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Automatic deepfake detection has received considerable research attention, yet the socio-technical environment in which humans actually encounter synthetic speech remains poorly understood. We investigate voice deepfake detection as a…
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This document describes the Short-duration Speaker Verification (SdSV) Challenge 2021. The main goal of the challenge is to evaluate new technologies for text-dependent (TD) and text-independent (TI) speaker verification (SV) in a short…
In this paper, we present the XMUSPEECH system for Task 1 of 2020 Personalized Voice Trigger Challenge (PVTC2020). Task 1 is a joint wake-up word detection with speaker verification on close talking data. The whole system consists of a…
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