5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing Sydney, Australia November 30 - December 4, 1998

A Comparative Study Of Speaker Verification Systems Using The Polycost Database

Tomas Nordström (1), Haakan Melin (2), Johan Lindberg (2)

(1) Telia Research AB, Sweden
(2) KTH, Dept. of Speech, Music and Hearing, Sweden

This paper reports on a comparative study of several automatic speaker verification systems using the Polycost database. Polycost is a multi-lingual database with non-native English and mother-tongue speech by subjects from 14 countries. We present results for the first three baseline experiments defined for the database as well as explore the multi-lingual aspects of Polycost in a number of experiments where we compare cross-language and same-language impostor attempts. Our results then lead us to suggest a revised set of baseline experiments.

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Bibliographic reference.  Nordström, Tomas / Melin, Haakan / Lindberg, Johan (1998): "A comparative study of speaker verification systems using the polycost database", In ICSLP-1998, paper 0773.