NIST SPONSORS 2000 NIST SPEAKER RECOGNITION EVALUATION WORKSHOP.

NIST organized and hosted the 2000 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation Workshop in June 2000, in Linthicum, MD. The purpose of the workshop was to review performance of systems in the evaluation, to discuss trends in text-independent speaker recognition, and to plan the next evaluation. The participating and contributing sites were from industry, academia, and governments in Australia, France, India, Israel, South Africa, Spain, and the United States.

For the past 5 years, NIST has organized evaluations of text-independent speaker recognition performance on conversational telephone speech. The tasks included one-speaker detection, two-speaker detection, speaker tracking, and speaker segmentation. The 2000 evaluation included for the first time some data in Castilian Spanish and other non-English languages. These evaluations are open to all interested sites. A workshop is held following each evaluation for participants to review evaluation performance and the state of speaker recognition technology and to consider plans for future evaluations. These evaluations have become internationally recognized as the leading measure of state-of-the-art performance in text-independent speaker recognition.