<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt">[</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Apologies for possible cross-posting]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt">*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt">ASVspoof 2019 CHALLENGE:<br>Future horizons in spoofed/fake audio detection<br></span></b><b><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;color:blue"><a href="http://www.asvspoof.org/" target="_blank" style="color:blue">http://www.asvspoof.org/</a></span></u></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt"> <br>=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=<br></span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt"><br>Can you distinguish computer-generated or replayed speech from authentic/bona fide speech? Are you able to design algorithms to detect spoofs/fakes automatically?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt">Are you concerned with the security of voice-driven interfaces?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt">Are you searching for new challenges in machine learning and signal processing?</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt">Join ASVspoof 2019</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt"> – the effort to develop next-generation countermeasures for the automatic detection of spoofed/fake audio. In combining the forces of leading research institutes and industry, ASVspoof 2019 encompasses two separate sub-challenges in logical and physical access control, and provides a common database of the most advanced spoofing attacks to date. The aim is to study both the limits and opportunities of spoofing countermeasures in the context of automatic speaker verification and fake audio detection.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt"><br><b>CHALLENGE TASK</b></span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt">Given a short audio clip, determine whether it represents authentic/bona fide human speech, or a spoof/fake (replay, synthesized speech or converted voice). You will be provided with a large database of labelled training and development data and will develop machine learning and signal processing countermeasures to distinguish automatically between the two. Countermeasure performance will be evaluated jointly with an automatic speaker verification (ASV) system provided by the organisers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt">BACKGROUND:<br></span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt">The ASVspoof 2019 challenge follows on from two previous ASVspoof challenges, held in 2015 and 2017. The 2015 edition focused on spoofed speech generated with text-to-speech (TTS) and voice conversion (VC) technologies. The 2017 edition focused on replay spoofing. The 2019 edition is the first to address all three forms attack and the latest, cutting-edge spoofing attack technology.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt">ADVANCES:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt">Today’s state-of-the-art, TTS and VC technologies produce speech signals that are as good as perceptually indistinguishable from bona fide speech. The LOGICAL ACCESS sub-challenge aims to determine whether the advances in TTS and VC pose a greater threat to the reliability of automatic speaker verification and spoofing countermeasure technologies. The PHYSICAL ACCESS sub-challenge builds upon the 2017 edition with a far more controlled evaluation setup which extends the focus of ASVspoof to fake audio detection in, e.g. the manipulation of voice-driven interfaces (smart speakers).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt">METRICS:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt">The 2019 edition also adopts a new metric, the tandem detection cost function (t-DCF). Adoption of the t-DCF metric aligns ASVspoof more closely to the field of ASV. The challenge nonetheless focuses on the development of standalone spoofing countermeasures; participation in ASVspoof 2019 does NOT require any expertise in ASV. The equal error rate (EER) used in previous editions remains as a secondary metric, supporting the wider implications of ASVspoof involving fake audio detection.<br clear="all" style="break-before:page"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt">SCHEDULE:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt">Training and development data release: 19th December 2018</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt">Evaluation data release: 15th February 2019</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt">Deadline to submit evaluation scores: 22nd February 2019</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt">Organisers return results to participants: 15th March 2019</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt">INTERSPEECH paper submission deadline: 29th March 2019</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt">REGISTRATION:</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt">Registration should be performed once only for each participating entity and by sending an email to </span><span class="gmail-m_-5639786129911989163gmail-m_-3004988647976999466gmail-m_2077993814904447315gmail-m_3752817955887184674gmail-m_3302225610261995199gmail-m_1022818819496418060gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt"><a href="mailto:registration@asvspoof.org" target="_blank" style="color:blue">registration@asvspoof.org</a></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt"> with ‘ASVspoof 2019 registration’ as the subject line. The mail body should include: (i) the name of the team; (ii) the name of the contact person; (iii) their country; (iv) their status (academic/non-academic), and (v) the challenge scenario(s) for which they wish to participate (indicative only). Data download links will be communicated to registered contact persons only.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt">MAILING LIST:</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt">Subscribe to general mailing list by sending e-mail with subject line ‘subscribe asvspoof2019’ to</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt"> </span><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;color:blue"><a href="mailto:sympa@asvspoof.org" target="_blank" style="color:blue">sympa@asvspoof.org</a></span></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt">. To post messages to the mailing list itself, send e-mails to </span><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;color:blue"><a href="mailto:asvspoof2019@asvspoof.org" target="_blank" style="color:blue">asvspoof2019@asvspoof.org</a></span></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt">ORGANIZERS^*:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt"><br><br>Junichi Yamagishi, NII, Japan & Univ. of Edinburgh, UK</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt">Massimiliano Todisco, EURECOM, France</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt">Md Sahidullah, Inria, France</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt">Héctor Delgado, EURECOM, France</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt">Xin Wang, National Institute of Informatics, Japan</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt">Nicholas Evans, EURECOM, France</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt">Tomi Kinnunen, University of Eastern Finland, Finland</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt">Kong Aik Lee, NEC, JAPAN</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt">Ville Vestman, University of Eastern Finland, Finland</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt">(*) Equal contribution</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt">CONTRIBUTORS:</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt">University of Edinburgh, UK; Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan, University of Science and Technology of China, China; iFlytek Research, China; Saarland University / DFKI GmbH, Germany; Trinity College Dublin, Ireland; NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan; HOYA, Japan; Google LLC (Text-to-Speech team, Google Brain team, Deepmind); University of Avignon, France; Aalto University, Finland; University of Eastern Finland, Finland; EURECOM, France.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt"><br><b>FURTHER INFORMATION:</b></span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;color:blue"><a href="mailto:info@asvspoof.org" target="_blank" style="color:blue">info@asvspoof.org</a></span></u></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="2" color="#000000">Md Sahidullah</font><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="2" color="#000000">website: </font><font color="#0000ee" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="2"><u><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/iitkgpsahi/" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/iitkgpsahi/</a></u></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>