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Cyber Security Researcher of University of applied Science takes part in NIST SRE 2016
Presentation of results at Interspeech 2017
The team of the University of Applied Science Darmstadt was the only research group from Germany to attend the NIST SRE 2016. The Speaker recognition Evaluation (SREs) organized by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) take place every two years and are the most important public Technology Evaluations in the area of voice biometrics. The 62-member team consists of experts of 16 institutes and universities of 4 continents. Member of the cooperation were a.o. IBM EURECOM, Institute for Infocomm Research, the Alibaba Group, the University of New South Wales and the University of Texas at Dallas.
Aim of the NIST SRE 2016 was to authenticate little known languages of the system with an automated system speaker. Therefor several thousand hours of English voice data as well as a few Philippine and Chinese data were made available. In the primary evaluation the Cyber Security Researcher of the University of Applies Science Darmstadt and the I4U Konsotrium achieved a performance of 0.74 and 0.88. The results of the NIST SRE 2016 were presented at Interspeech in August 2017.
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