The VOiCES from a Distance Challenge 2019 Evaluation Plan
This addresses the challenge of accurate speech processing in realistic noisy and distant environments for researchers and developers in speaker recognition and ASR, but is incremental as it builds on existing benchmarks.
The VOiCES from a Distance Challenge 2019 tackled the problem of speaker recognition and automatic speech recognition in noisy, distant/far-field audio conditions by creating a benchmark and dataset, resulting in a publicly available resource to foster research and technology development in this area.
The "VOiCES from a Distance Challenge 2019" is designed to foster research in the area of speaker recognition and automatic speech recognition (ASR) with the special focus on single channel distant/far-field audio, under noisy conditions. The main objectives of this challenge are to: (i) benchmark state-of-the-art technology in the area of speaker recognition and automatic speech recognition (ASR), (ii) support the development of new ideas and technologies in speaker recognition and ASR, (iii) support new research groups entering the field of distant/far-field speech processing, and (iv) provide a new, publicly available dataset to the community that exhibits realistic distance characteristics.