  The "VOiCES from a Distance Challenge 2019" is designed to foster research in
the area of speaker recognition and automatic speech recognition (ASR) with the
special focus on single channel distant/far-field audio, under noisy
conditions. The main objectives of this challenge are to: (i) benchmark
state-of-the-art technology in the area of speaker recognition and automatic
speech recognition (ASR), (ii) support the development of new ideas and
technologies in speaker recognition and ASR, (iii) support new research groups
entering the field of distant/far-field speech processing, and (iv) provide a
new, publicly available dataset to the community that exhibits realistic
distance characteristics.
