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The development of robust, multilingual speaker recognition systems is hindered by a lack of large-scale, publicly available and multilingual datasets, particularly for the read-speech style crucial for applications like anti-spoofing. To…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-26 Aref Farhadipour , Jan Marquenie , Srikanth Madikeri , Eleanor Chodroff

Multilingual speaker verification (SV) remains challenging due to limited cross-lingual data and language-dependent information in speaker embeddings. This paper presents a language-invariant multilingual SV system for the TidyVoice 2026…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Ze Li , Xiaoxiao Miao , Juan Liu , Ming Li

This document outlines the Text-dependent Speaker Verification (TdSV) Challenge 2024, which centers on analyzing and exploring novel approaches for text-dependent speaker verification. The primary goal of this challenge is to motive…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Zeinali Hossein , Lee Kong Aik , Alam Jahangir , Burget Lukas

This paper contains a post-challenge performance analysis on cross-lingual speaker verification of the IDLab submission to the VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenge 2021 (VoxSRC-21). We show that current speaker embedding extractors…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 Jenthe Thienpondt , Brecht Desplanques , Kris Demuynck

Multimodal speaker identification systems typically assume the availability of complete and homogeneous audio-visual modalities during both training and testing. However, in real-world applications, such assumptions often do not hold.…

In this paper, we describe SpeakerStew - a hybrid system to perform speaker verification on 46 languages. Two core ideas were explored in this system: (1) Pooling training data of different languages together for multilingual generalization…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-17 Roza Chojnacka , Jason Pelecanos , Quan Wang , Ignacio Lopez Moreno

The problem of synthetic speech detection has enjoyed considerable attention, with recent methods achieving low error rates across several established benchmarks. However, to what extent can low error rates on academic benchmarks translate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-23 Ashi Garg , Zexin Cai , Lin Zhang , Henry Li Xinyuan , Leibny Paola García-Perera , Kevin Duh , Sanjeev Khudanpur , Matthew Wiesner , Nicholas Andrews

While language identification is a fundamental speech and language processing task, for many languages and language families it remains a challenging task. For many low-resource and endangered languages this is in part due to resource…

The Common Voice corpus is a massively-multilingual collection of transcribed speech intended for speech technology research and development. Common Voice is designed for Automatic Speech Recognition purposes but can be useful in other…

In this paper we present a data-driven, integrated approach to speaker verification, which maps a test utterance and a few reference utterances directly to a single score for verification and jointly optimizes the system's components using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Georg Heigold , Ignacio Moreno , Samy Bengio , Noam Shazeer

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…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-26 Hossein Zeinali , Kong Aik Lee , Jahangir Alam , Lukas Burget

For the speaker-controlled spoken language identification task proposed in the TidyLang Challenge 2026, this paper proposes a language identification method based on pre-trained models and margin-based losses. The proposed method adopts a…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Zhihua Fang , Liang He , Weiwu Jiang

In multilingual societies, social conversations often involve code-mixed speech. The current speech technology may not be well equipped to extract information from multi-lingual multi-speaker conversations. The DISPLACE challenge entails a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-06 Shikha Baghel , Shreyas Ramoji , Sidharth , Ranjana H , Prachi Singh , Somil Jain , Pratik Roy Chowdhuri , Kaustubh Kulkarni , Swapnil Padhi , Deepu Vijayasenan , Sriram Ganapathy

In this work, we explore multiple architectures and training procedures for developing a multi-speaker and multi-lingual neural TTS system with the goals of a) improving the quality when the available data in the target language is limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Javier Latorre , Charlotte Bailleul , Tuuli Morrill , Alistair Conkie , Yannis Stylianou

The Multi-speaker Multi-style Voice Cloning Challenge (M2VoC) aims to provide a common sizable dataset as well as a fair testbed for the benchmarking of the popular voice cloning task. Specifically, we formulate the challenge to adapt an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-06 Qicong Xie , Xiaohai Tian , Guanghou Liu , Kun Song , Lei Xie , Zhiyong Wu , Hai Li , Song Shi , Haizhou Li , Fen Hong , Hui Bu , Xin Xu

For new participants - Executive summary: (1) The task is to develop a voice anonymization system for speech data which conceals the speaker's voice identity while protecting linguistic content, paralinguistic attributes, intelligibility…

The ConferencingSpeech 2021 challenge is proposed to stimulate research on far-field multi-channel speech enhancement for video conferencing. The challenge consists of two separate tasks: 1) Task 1 is multi-channel speech enhancement with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-05 Wei Rao , Yihui Fu , Yanxin Hu , Xin Xu , Yvkai Jv , Jiangyu Han , Zhongjie Jiang , Lei Xie , Yannan Wang , Shinji Watanabe , Zheng-Hua Tan , Hui Bu , Tao Yu , Shidong Shang

Recently in speaker recognition, performance degradation due to the channel domain mismatched condition has been actively addressed. However, the mismatches arising from language is yet to be sufficiently addressed. This paper proposes an…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Suwon Shon , Seongkyu Mun , Hanseok Ko

The voice conversion challenge is a bi-annual scientific event held to compare and understand different voice conversion (VC) systems built on a common dataset. In 2020, we organized the third edition of the challenge and constructed and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-31 Yi Zhao , Wen-Chin Huang , Xiaohai Tian , Junichi Yamagishi , Rohan Kumar Das , Tomi Kinnunen , Zhenhua Ling , Tomoki Toda

The goal of multilingual speech technology is to facilitate seamless communication between individuals speaking different languages, creating the experience as though everyone were a multilingual speaker. To create this experience, speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Supriti Sinhamahapatra , Thai-Binh Nguyen , Yiğit Oğuz , Enes Ugan , Jan Niehues , Alexander Waibel
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