Title :
The “SIVA” speech database for speaker verification: description and evaluation
Author :
Falcone, Mauro ; Gallo, Alessandra
Author_Institution :
Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Rome, Italy
Abstract :
The description and characterization of the Italian speech database SIVA is given. After a brief review of the available corpora designed for speaker verification task, we introduce the “Speaker Identification and Verification Archives: SIVA”, a database that consists actually of more than two thousands calls, collected over the public switched telephone network. A detailed description of speech material, a proposal for an acoustic characterization, and the performances obtained using a speaker verification reference system are presented and discussed herein after
Keywords :
speaker recognition; speech recognition; Italian speech database; SIVA speech database; acoustic characterization; public switched telephone network; speaker verification; Acoustic materials; Control systems; Databases; Loudspeakers; Materials science and technology; Proposals; Research and development; Speaker recognition; Speech analysis; Telephony;
Conference_Titel :
Spoken Language, 1996. ICSLP 96. Proceedings., Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Philadelphia, PA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3555-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICSLP.1996.608005
