Introduction to the special issue 'Speaker and language characterization and recognition: Voice modeling, conversion, synthesis and ethical aspects'

摘要

Welcome to this special issue on Speaker and Language Characterization which features, among other contributions, some of the most remarkable ideas presented and discussed at Odyssey 2018: the Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop, held in Les Sables d'Olonne, France, in June 2018. This issue perpetuates the series proposed by 1SCA Speaker and language Characterization Special Interest Group (S1G) in coordination with 1SCA Speaker Odyssey workshops (Campbell, 2000; Berkling et al., 2007; Lleida and Rodriguez-Fuentes, 2018). Voice is one of the most casual modalities for natural and intuitive interactions between humans as well as between humans and machines. Voice is also a central part of our identity. Voice-based solutions are currently deployed in a growing variety of applications, including person authentication through automatic speaker verification (ASV).