VoCMex: a voice corpus in Mexican Spanish for research in speaker recognition

  • Authors:
  • José-Martín Olguín-Espinoza;Pedro Mayorga-Ortiz;Hugo Hidalgo-Silva;Luis Vizcarra-Corral;Mónica-Livier Mendiola-Cárdenas

  • Affiliations:
  • Facultad de Ingeniería Mexicali, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC), Mexicali, México;Departamento de Posgrado, Instituto Tecnológico de Mexicali, Mexicali, México;Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación, CICESE, Ensenada, México;Facultad de Ciencias, UABC, Ensenada, México;Facultad de Ingeniería Mexicali, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC), Mexicali, México

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Speech Technology
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Voice corpus is an essential element for automatic speaker recognition systems. In order for a corpus to be useful in recognition tasks, it must contain recordings from several speakers pronouncing phonetically balanced utterances; recorded through several sessions using different recording media. This work shows the methodology, development and evaluation of a Mexican Spanish Corpus referred as to VoCMex, which is aimed to support research on speaker recognition. It contains telephone and microphone recordings of 20 male and 13 female speakers, obtained through three sessions. In order to validate the usefulness of the corpus, a speaker identification system was developed and the recognition results were similar compared against those obtained using a known voice corpus.