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NIST 2021 Speaker Recognition Evaluation Plan

July 12, 2021
Author(s)
Omid Sadjadi, Craig Greenberg, Elliot Singer, Lisa Mason, Douglas Reynolds
The 2021 Speaker Recognition Evaluation (SRE21) is the next in an ongoing series of speaker recognition evaluations conducted by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) since 1996. The objectives of the evaluation series are (1) to

NIST 2020 CTS Speaker Recognition Challenge Evaluation Plan

July 29, 2020
Author(s)
Seyed Omid Sadjadi, Craig S. Greenberg, Elliot Singer, Douglas A. Reynolds, Lisa Mason
Following the success of the 2019 Conversational Telephone Speech (CTS) Speaker Recognition Challenge, which received 1347 submissions from 67 academic and industrial organizations, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will be

NIST Pilot Too Close for Too Long (TC4TL) Challenge Evaluation Plan

June 18, 2020
Author(s)
Seyed Omid Sadjadi, Craig S. Greenberg, Douglas A. Reynolds
One of the keys to managing the current (and future) epidemic is notifying people of possible virus exposure so they can isolate and seek treatment to limit further spread of the disease. While manual contact tracing is effective for notifying those who

The 2019 NIST Audio-Visual Speaker Recognition Evaluation

May 18, 2020
Author(s)
Seyed Omid Sadjadi, Craig S. Greenberg, Elliot Singer, Douglas A. Reynolds, Lisa Mason, Jaime Hernandez-Cordero
In 2019, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) conducted the most recent in an ongoing series of speaker recognition evaluations (SRE). There were two components to SRE19: 1) a leaderboard style Challenge using unexposed

The 2019 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation CTS Challenge

May 18, 2020
Author(s)
Seyed Omid Sadjadi, Craig S. Greenberg, Elliot Singer, Douglas Reynolds, Lisa Mason, Jaime Hernandez-Cordero
In 2019, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) conducted a leaderboard style speaker recognition challenge using conversational telephone speech (CTS) data extracted from the unexposed portion of the Call My Net 2 (CMN2) corpus

The 2018 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation

September 15, 2019
Author(s)
Omid Sadjadi, Craig Greenberg, Elliot Singer, Douglas A. Reynolds, Lisa Mason, Jaime Hernandez-Cordero
In 2018, the U.S. national institute of standards and technology (NIST) conducted the most recent in an ongoing series of speaker recognition evaluations (SRE). SRE18 was organized in a similar manner to SRE16, focusing on speaker detection over

Open Speech Analytic Technologies Pilot Evaluation OpenSAT Pilot

February 27, 2019
Author(s)
Frederick R. Byers, Jonathan G. Fiscus, Seyed Omid Sadjadi, Gregory A. Sanders, Mark A. Przybocki
Open Speech Analytic Technologies Pilot Evaluation (OpenSAT) is a new speech analytic technology evaluation series organized by NIST that will begin with a pilot evaluation in the Spring of 2017. The pilot includes three tasks: Speech Activity Detection

Performance Analysis of the 2017 NIST Language Recognition Evaluation

September 2, 2018
Author(s)
Omid Sadjadi, Timothee N. Kheyrkhah, Craig Greenberg, Douglas A. Reynolds, Elliot Singer, Lisa Mason, Jaime Hernandez-Cordero
The 2017 NIST language recognition evaluation (LRE) was held in the autumn of 2017. Similar to the past LRE's, the basic task in LRE17 was language detection, with an emphasis on discriminating closely related languages (14 in total) selected from 5

The 2017 NIST Language Recognition Evaluation

June 26, 2018
Author(s)
Seyed Omid Sadjadi, Timothee N. Kheyrkhah, Audrey N. Tong, Craig S. Greenberg, Douglas Reynolds, Elliot Singer, Lisa Mason, Jaime Hernandez-Cordero
In 2017, NIST conducted the most recent in an ongoing series of Language Recognition Evaluations (LRE) meant to foster research in robust text- and speaker-independent language recognition, as well as measure performance of current state-of-the-art systems

The 2016 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation

August 20, 2017
Author(s)
Seyed Omid Sadjadi, Timothee N. Kheyrkhah, Audrey N. Tong, Craig S. Greenberg, Douglas A. Reynolds, Elliot Singer, Lisa Mason, Jaime Hernandez-Cordero
In 2016, NIST conducted the most recent in an ongoing series of speaker recognition evaluations (SRE) to foster research in robust text-independent speaker recognition, as well as measure performance of the current state-of-the-art systems, targeting in