Background Population Database
Definition
A corpus of speaker recordings used to calibrate the LR in a forensic comparison. Must be matched to the case in language, channel, and population (sex, age, dialect) to produce a valid LR; mismatch is a major source of LR unreliability in multilingual casework.
Related terms
- BATVOX
- A commercial automated speaker recognition system (originally Agnitio, later Nuance Communications) widely used in operational forensic casework in Europe and Latin America....
- C_llr (Log-Likelihood Ratio Cost)
- A proper scoring rule measuring the calibration quality of a speaker recognition system's LR outputs; a well-calibrated system has C_llr close to...
- ENFSI BPM
- The ENFSI Best Practice Manual for Forensic Comparison of Speech (2015, rev. 2022); the operational standard for speaker comparison in European forensic...
- ENFSI Verbal Scale
- A standardised table published by the European Network of Forensic Science Institutes that maps ranges of LR values to verbal expressions of...
- Equal Error Rate (EER)
- The point on a classifier's detection error tradeoff curve where the false accept rate equals the false reject rate. Lower EER indicates...
- I-Vector
- A fixed-length low-dimensional speaker representation extracted by projecting a speaker's UBM statistics into a total variability space. Introduced by Dehak et al....
- NIST SRE (Speaker Recognition Evaluation)
- A competitive benchmarking series run by the National Institute of Standards and Technology since 1996, in which research and commercial teams submit...
- PLDA (Probabilistic Linear Discriminant Analysis)
- A statistical back-end model used with i-vector and x-vector systems to compute a similarity score between two utterance representations, normalised for within-speaker...
- X-Vector
- A deep-learning speaker embedding produced by the penultimate layer of a time-delay neural network (TDNN) trained for speaker classification. Introduced by Snyder...
Explained in
- Modern Automated Speaker Recognition: NIST SRE and the ENFSI BPMA corpus of speaker recordings used to calibrate the LR in a forensic comparison. Must be matched to the case in language, channel, and population (sex, age, d...