The MMSR Bilingual and Crosschannel Corpora for Speaker Recognition Research and Evaluation

We describe efforts to create corpora to support and evaluate systems that meet the challenge of speaker recognition in the face of both channel and language variation. In addition to addressing ongoing evaluation of speaker recognition systems, these corpora are aimed at the bilingual and crosschannel dimensions. We report on specific data collection efforts at the Linguistic Data Consortium, the 2004 speaker recognition evaluation program organized by th