TY - JOUR ID - henn00:spec T1 - POLYCOST: A telephone-speech database for speaker recognition A1 - Hennebert, Jean A1 - Melin, Hakan A1 - Petrovska, Dijana A1 - Genoud, Dominique JA - Speech Communication Y1 - 2000 VL - 31 IS - 2-3 SP - 265 EP - 270 M2 - doi: 10.1016/s0167-6393(99)00082-5 KW - Benchmarking KW - Biometrics KW - Speaker Verification N2 - This article presents an overview of the POLYCOST database dedicated to speaker recognition applications over the telephone network. The main characteristics of this database are: medium mixed speech corpus size (>100 speakers), English spoken by foreigners, mainly digits with some free speech, collected through international telephone lines, and minimum of nine sessions for 85% of the speakers. ER -