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New evaluation set disentangles speaker and language effects in cross-lingual verification

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Researchers have developed a new evaluation set for cross-lingual speaker verification (SV) systems, focusing on Iberian languages. This setup allows for the analysis of cross-lingual SV under consistent speaker identity, addressing limitations in standard protocols that confound language mismatch with inter-speaker variability. The study applied this to a HuBERT-based SV system, finding that while speaker variability contributes to performance degradation, language mismatch is the primary driver of cross-lingual performance loss. AI

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New evaluation set disentangles speaker and language effects in cross-lingual verification

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Pol Buitrago, Javier Hernando ·

    Disentangling Speaker and Language Effects in Cross-Lingual Speaker Verification for Iberian Languages

    arXiv:2607.01161v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cross-lingual speaker verification (SV) systems typically exhibit performance degradation when enrollment and test utterances are spoken in different languages. However, standard evaluation protocols confound language mismatch wit…

  2. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Javier Hernando ·

    Disentangling Speaker and Language Effects in Cross-Lingual Speaker Verification for Iberian Languages

    Cross-lingual speaker verification (SV) systems typically exhibit performance degradation when enrollment and test utterances are spoken in different languages. However, standard evaluation protocols confound language mismatch with inter-speaker variability, as evaluation is gene…

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