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Speaker Recognition Subcommittee
The Speaker Recognition Subcommittee focuses on standards and guidelines related to the practice of speaker recognition, voice data collection, measurement, transmission, and retrieval.
Officers | Members | Standards | Other Work Products
Officers
Larry Kincaid, Subcommittee Chair, Sandia National Laboratories
David Marks, Subcommittee Co-Vice Chair, Federal Bureau of Investigation
John Hansen, Subcommittee Co-Vice Chair, University of Texas at Dallas
Patrick Gibbs, Subcommittee Executive Secretary, Leidos
Members
Dana M. Delger, Innocence Project (Legal Task Group representative)
Sandra Disner, University of Southern California
Stephanie Domitrovich, Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts (Legal Task Group representative)
Ewald Enzinger, Eduworks Corporation
Stephen Gibbs, U.S. Federal Government
Dorothy Glancy, Santa Clara University
Erica Gold, California State University San Marcos
Zayan Haq, Department of Homeland Security
Jack Prothero, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) (Seized Drugs Subcommittee member; Statistics Task Group representative)
Omid Sadjadi, Ph.D., Self-employed
Jennifer Stathakis, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Diane Stephens, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Alice Thomas, U.S. Secret Service
Emily Whitmarsh, Defense Forensics and Biometrics Agency
Cindy (Ya Yang) Xiong, University of Massachusetts (Human Factors Task Group representative)
Speaker Recognition Affiliate List
Standards
On the OSAC Registry
- AES76-2022: AES standard for audio forensics – Speech Collection Guidelines for Speaker Recognition: Interviewing at a Temporary Location ( added May 2, 2023).
Under Development
- Overview/Landscape of Speaker Recognition.
- Validation of Forensic Speaker Recognition for the Purpose of Informing Legal Admissibility Decisions.
- Assessing Mismatch Conditions for Forensic Speaker Recognition.
- Dataset Collection for Forensic Speaker Recognition.
Other Work Products
Process Maps
Research & Development Needs
- See the research and development needs identified by the Speaker Recognition Subcommittee.
Technical Guidance Documents
- Issues in Data Processing and Relevant Population Selection, November 2022.
Discipline-Specific Bibliographies and Bibliographic References
These documents may contain information to help forensic scientists, judges, lawyers, researchers, and other readers better understand the nature, scope, and foundations of the individual disciplines as currently practiced. The identification of these documents does not represent an endorsement by OSAC or NIST. Only standards that are posted on the OSAC Registry and Technical Guidance documents, are endorsed by OSAC. The referenced documents may be subject to copyright. Note: Subcommittee position statements or responses to data collections by the subcommittee do not necessarily represent the position of OSAC or NIST.