The albayzin 2012 language recognition evaluation
Luis Javier Rodríguez-Fuentes, Niko Brümmer, Mikel Peñagarikano, Amparo Varona, Germán Bordel, Mireia Diez · 2013
The Albayzin 2008 Language Recognition Evaluation was held from May to October 2008, and their results presented and discussed among the participating teams at the 5th Biennial Workshop on Speech Technology [1], or-ganized by the Spanish Network on Speech Technologies [2] in November 2008. In this paper, we present (for the first time) a full description of the Albayzin 2008 LRE and analyze and discuss recognition results. The evalua-tion was designed according to the test procedures, pro-tocols and performance measures used in the NIST 2007 LRE. The KALAKA database [3], consisting of 16 kHz audio signals recorded from TV broadcasts, was created ad-hoc and used for the evaluation. The four official lan-guages spoken in Spain (Basque, Catalan, Galician and