An open/free database and Benchmark for Uyghur speaker recognition

Abstract

Few research has been conducted on Uyghur speaker recognition. Among the limited works, researchers usually collect small speech databases and publish results based on their own private data. This `close-door evaluation' makes most of the publications doubtable. This paper publishes an open and free speech database THUYG-20 SRE and a benchmark for Uyghur speaker recognition. The database is based on the THUYG-20 speech corpus we recently released, and the benchmark involves recognition tasks with various training/enrollment/test conditions. We provide a complete description for the database as well as the benchmark, and present an i-vector baseline system constructed using the Kaldi toolkit.