MCE 2018: The 1st Multi-target Speaker Detection and Identification Challenge Evaluation (MCE) Plan, Dataset and Baseline System

Abstract: The Multitarget Challenge aims to assess how well current speech technology is able to determine whether or not a recorded utterance was spoken by one of a large number of 'blacklisted' speakers. It is a form of multi-target speaker detection based on real-world telephone conversations. Data recordings are generated from call center customer-agent conversations. Each conversation is represented by a single i-vector. Given a pool of training and development data from non-Blacklist and Blacklist speakers, the task is to measure how accurately one can detect 1) whether a test recording is spoken by a Blacklist speaker, and 2) which specific Blacklist speaker was talking.