KING Speaker Verification
| Item Name: | KING Speaker Verification |
| Author(s): | Dr. Alan Higgins, Dave Vermilyea |
| LDC Catalog No.: | LDC95S22 |
| ISBN: | 1-58563-050-0 |
| ISLRN: | 155-446-887-889-4 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.35111/j0af-qf40 |
| Member Year(s): | 1995, 1998 |
| DCMI Type(s): | Sound, Text |
| Sample Type: | 1-channel pcm compressed |
| Sample Rate: | 8000 |
| Data Source(s): | microphone speech, telephone conversations, telephone speech |
| Application(s): | speaker identification, speaker verification |
| Language(s): | English |
| Language ID(s): | eng |
| License(s): |
LDC User Agreement for Non-Members |
| Online Documentation: | LDC95S22 Documents |
| Licensing Instructions: | Subscription & Standard Members, and Non-Members |
| Citation: | Dr. Alan Higgins, and Dave Vermilyea. KING Speaker Verification LDC95S22. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 1995. |
| Related Works: | View |
Introduction
KING Speaker Verification was developed by ITT in 1987 under a US government research contract; this release is based on a 1992 reprocessing of the original recordings (KING-92). It contains recorded English speech from 51 male speakers with accompanying transcripts. Speakers were divided into two groups; each group was recorded at a different location. The collection was designed principally for closed set experiments in text-independent speaker identification or verification over toll-quality telephone lines.
Data
Speakers were ITT employees located in Nutley, NJ and San Diego, CA. Recordings were made in ITT laboratories in those locations. Speakers used a telephone handset and a high-quality microphone to each make ten recordings of approximately 30-60 seconds duration. They spoke on assigned topics that included a construction toy task, describing odd shapes, a topic of choice, a road rally task, desribing photographs and describing cartoon strips. Intervals between sessions varied from one week to one month. Each session was orthographically transcribed.
Samples
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Updates
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