ISCA Archive Interspeech 2015
ISCA Archive Interspeech 2015

The reddots platform for mobile crowd-sourcing of speech data

Kong Aik Lee, Guangsen Wang, Kam Pheng Ng, Hanwu Sun, Trung Hieu Nguyen, Ngoc Thuy Huong Thai, Bin Ma, Haizhou Li

With ever increasing computational power and availability of broadband connectivity to the Internet, mobile devices have become pervasive and gaining more popularity. Capitalizing on the mobile-Internet infrastructure, a speech data collection platform was developed as part of the RedDots project which is dedicated to the study of speaker recognition over mobile devices. The RedDots platform consists of a centralized Web server receiving inputs from the crowd through mobile devices. As of the time of this writing, we have recruited speakers from 17 countries in three-month period, showing the potential of the RedDots platform to collect speech data from the worldwide population.