Polycost: A Telephone-Speech Database for Speaker Recognition

D. Petrovska, J. Hennebert, H. Melin, D. Genoud

Abstract

This article presents an overview of the POLYCOST database dedicated to speaker recognition over the telephone network. The main characteristics of this database are: large mixed speech corpus size (>100 speakers), English spoken by foreigners, mainly digits with some free speech, collected through international telephone lines, and more than eight sessions per speaker.