The NIST speaker recognition evaluation program

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has coordinated annual scientific evaluations of text-independent speaker recognition since 1996. These evaluations aim to provide important contributions to the direction of research efforts and the calibration of technical capabilities. They are intended to be of interest to all researchers working on the general problem of text-independent speaker recognition. To this end, the evaluations are designed to be simple, fully supported, accessible and focused on core technology issues. The evaluations have focused primarily on speaker detection in the context of conversational telephone speech. More recent evaluations have also included related tasks, such as speaker segmentation, and have used data in addition to conversational telephone speech. The evaluations are designed to foster research progress, with the objectives of:

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