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.. Elie Khoury <Elie.Khoury@idiap.ch>
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 Run speaker recognition algorithms
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This package is part of the ``bob.bio`` packages, which allow to run comparable and reproducible biometric recognition experiments on publicly available databases.

This package contains functionality to run speaker recognition experiments.
It is an extension to the `bob.bio.base <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bob.bio.base>`_ package, which provides the basic scripts.
In this package, utilities that are specific for speaker recognition are contained, such as:

* Audio databases
* Voice activity detection preprocessing
* Acoustic feature extractors
* Recognition algorithms based on acoustic features

For further information about ``bob.bio``, please read `its Documentation <http://pythonhosted.org/bob.bio.base/index.html>`_.

Installation
------------
To install this package -- alone or together with other `Packages of Bob <https://github.com/idiap/bob/wiki/Packages>`_ -- please read the `Installation Instructions <https://github.com/idiap/bob/wiki/Installation>`_.
For Bob_ to be able to work properly, some dependent packages are required to be installed.
Please make sure that you have read the `Dependencies <https://github.com/idiap/bob/wiki/Dependencies>`_ for your operating system.

Documentation
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For further documentation on this package, please read the `Stable Version <http://pythonhosted.org/bob.bio.spear/index.html>`_ or the `Latest Version <https://www.idiap.ch/software/bob/docs/latest/bioidiap/bob.bio.spear/master/index.html>`_ of the documentation.
For a list of tutorials on this or the other packages of Bob_, or information on submitting issues, asking questions and starting discussions, please visit its website.

.. _bob: https://www.idiap.ch/software/bob
