Short-duration Speaker Verification (SdSV) Challenge 2021: the Challenge Evaluation Plan
This challenge addresses the problem of speaker verification in short-duration scenarios for researchers and practitioners, but it is incremental as it builds on existing challenge frameworks.
The paper introduces the Short-duration Speaker Verification Challenge 2021, which aims to evaluate text-dependent and text-independent speaker verification technologies under short-duration and cross-lingual conditions, focusing on systematic benchmarking and analysis of phonetic variability.
This document describes the Short-duration Speaker Verification (SdSV) Challenge 2021. The main goal of the challenge is to evaluate new technologies for text-dependent (TD) and text-independent (TI) speaker verification (SV) in a short duration scenario. The proposed challenge evaluates SdSV with varying degree of phonetic overlap between the enrollment and test utterances (cross-lingual). It is the first challenge with a broad focus on systematic benchmark and analysis on varying degrees of phonetic variability on short-duration speaker recognition. We expect that modern methods (deep neural networks in particular) will play a key role.