VoxAging: Continuously Tracking Speaker Aging with a Large-Scale Longitudinal Dataset in English and Mandarin

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21445v1
• Date: Tue, 27 May 2025 17:16:59 GMT
• Title: VoxAging: Continuously Tracking Speaker Aging with a Large-Scale Longitudinal Dataset in English and Mandarin
• Authors: Zhiqi Ai, Meixuan Bao, Zhiyong Chen, Zhi Yang, Xinnuo Li, Shugong Xu,
• Abstract summary: We present a large-scale longitudinal dataset collected from 293 speakers over several years, with the longest time span reaching 17 years (approximately 900 weeks)<n>We studied the phenomenon of speaker aging and its effects on advanced speaker verification systems, analyzed individual speaker aging processes, and explored the impact of factors such as age group and gender on speaker aging research.
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• Abstract: The performance of speaker verification systems is adversely affected by speaker aging. However, due to challenges in data collection, particularly the lack of sustained and large-scale longitudinal data for individuals, research on speaker aging remains difficult. In this paper, we present VoxAging, a large-scale longitudinal dataset collected from 293 speakers (226 English speakers and 67 Mandarin speakers) over several years, with the longest time span reaching 17 years (approximately 900 weeks). For each speaker, the data were recorded at weekly intervals. We studied the phenomenon of speaker aging and its effects on advanced speaker verification systems, analyzed individual speaker aging processes, and explored the impact of factors such as age group and gender on speaker aging research.

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