11/25/2021
1) evaluation sets
https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/data/voxceleb/vox1.html
https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/data/voxceleb/vox2.html
2) tools
2.1) ASV-subtools:
https://github.com/Snowdar/asv-subtools
Comment:
support S-norm and AS-norm:
https://github.com/Snowdar/asv-subtools/blob/master/score/ScoreNormalization.py
2.2) Speechbrain
“Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s.”
“The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad.”
“It’s better to give than to receive. Especially advice.”
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
“Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s.”
“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
“A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn’t feel like it”
“Without hard work and discipline it is difficult to be a top professional.”
“Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don’t sound professional; we sound like people you would know.”
“Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.”
“Lost time is never found again.”
“Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.”
“Time is money.”
“Those who have succeeded at anything and don’t mention luck are kidding themselves”
“Action is the foundational key to all success."
“What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose."
“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
“Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.”
“I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.”
“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”
“Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.”
“Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.”
“The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.”
“Information is not knowledge."
“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”
“Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.””
"The information is in the people, not in your head.”
“The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.”
“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”
“The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results."
“To open a shop is easy, to keep it open is an art.”
“The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.”
"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”
“A joke is a very serious thing"
“If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?”
“Oh, so they have internet on computers now!””
"If something goes wrong at the plant, blame the guy who can’t speak English.”
“The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."
"The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.”
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.””
"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will.”
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.”
“Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation.”
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
“Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”
“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”
“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”
“The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humour, but without folly.”
“A great leader’s courage to fulfil his vision comes from passion, not position.”
I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”
“I’d rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.”
“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.”
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”
“I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.”
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
“The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it”
