This article presents the text-independent speaker detection and tracking s
ystems developed by the members of the ELISA Consortium for the NIST'99 spe
aker recognition evaluation campaign. ELISA is a consortium grouping resear
chers of several laboratories sharing software modules, resources and exper
imental protocols. Each system is briefly described, and comparative result
s on the NIST'99 evaluation tasks are discussed. (C) 2000 Academic Press.