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Tandem detection cost function (t-DCF)

Definition

The primary evaluation metric in ASVspoof from 2019 onward. It measures the cost of errors when a countermeasure is integrated with an automatic speaker verification system, weighting false accepts and false rejects by their operational costs.

Related terms

Anti-spoofing countermeasure (CM)
A classifier, also called a CM system, trained to output a score indicating the probability that a given audio segment is genuine...
ASVspoof
A recurring evaluation campaign and dataset series that benchmarks anti-spoofing countermeasures against corpora of genuine and spoofed utterances. Editions in 2015, 2017,...
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...
Neural TTS cloning
A text-to-speech system that adapts to a target speaker using a short enrollment recording, generating new utterances in that speaker's voice from...
Voice conversion
A signal-processing or deep-learning technique that transforms the vocal characteristics of a source speaker's utterance to match a target speaker, while preserving...

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  • Voice Conversion and Cloning DetectionThe primary evaluation metric in ASVspoof from 2019 onward. It measures the cost of errors when a countermeasure is integrated with an automatic speaker verifi...

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