Speaker and Language Characterization (SpLC)

Aims. The aim of SpLC is to foster interactions among researchers in speaker and language recognition.

Motivation. The need for fast, efficient, accurate, and robust means of recognizing people and languages is of growing importance for commercial, forensic, and government applications.

Board. Current SIG officers are:

• Chairperson: Tomi Kinnunen (email, webpage) University of Eastern Finland, Finland
• Secretary: Anthony Larcher (email, webpage) Le Mans Université, France
• ISCA Liaison Representative: Kong Aik Lee (email, webpage), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

ISCA-supported events

Odyssey is the biannual meeting of the SpLC community:

• Odyssey 2024, 18/6-21/6, Quebec, Canada
• Odyssey 2022, 28/6-1/7, Beijing, China (organized as virtual workshop) (proceedings)
• Odyssey 2020, 1/11-5/11, Tokyo, Japan (organized as virtual workshop) (proceedings) 
• Odyssey 2018, 26/6-29/6, Les Sables d’Olonne, France (proceedings)
• Odyssey 2016, 21/6-24/6, Bilbao, Spain (proceedings)
• Odyssey 2014, 16/6-19/6, Joensuu, Finland (proceedings)
• Odyssey 2012, 25/6-28/6, Singapore (proceedings) (recordings)
• Odyssey 2010, 30/6-1/7, Brno, Czech Republic, (proceedings), (recordings)
• Odyssey 2008, 21/1-24/1, Stellenbosch, South Africa> (proceedings)
• Odyssey 2006, 28/6-30/6, San Juan, PR, USA (proceedings)
• Odyssey 2004, 31/5-3/6, Toledo, Spain (proceedings)
• Odyssey 2001, 18/6-22/6, Crete, Greece (proceedings)
• Odyssey 1998, 20/4-23/4, Avignon, France
• Odyssey 1994, 5/4-7/4, Martigny, Switzerland (proceedings)

Recently, SpLC has endorsed the VoxCeleb challenge, that exploits a large scale audiovisual dataset of human speech:

• VoxCeleb 2019, 14/9, Graz, Austria

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