A larger look at speaker retrieval

Voice similarity.
Text similarity.

Do closer speaker embeddings retrieve closer wording? Explore an expanded exact-search sample, with matched random controls and the actual speaker vectors behind every pair.

2,000RANDOM QUERIES
—PAIR MEASUREMENTS
9.95MVECTORS SEARCHED
Read the sampling, axes and limits before interpreting the plot

X = actual speaker cosine. The cosine is recalculated from the two specific normalized speaker vectors named by the selected pair. For two returned results, this is their cosine with each other—not either result's similarity to the original query.

Y = full-transcript fuzzy similarity. Ordered-character Indel similarity: twice the longest common subsequence length divided by total text length. Text uses Unicode NFKC, casefold, punctuation-to-space and whitespace normalization. No number or contraction expansion. Exact text matches are included and can be filtered separately.

2,000 fresh uniform clips, top 20 each. Query the best-supported local speaker. Exhaustively search the fixed full index, exclude the entire query clip, and keep unique result clips. Original near-unit-norm inner-product ranking matches production search. Scatter X is separately normalized cosine.

Controls match dataset and detected language. Choose up to 20 distinct clips from a separate 10,000-clip pool, and use each control's speaker closest to the query. Rare strata can have fewer controls; counts are explicit. Between-result/control pairs use the speakers selected for that query.

All observations are plotted. Dense points overlap. Every filtered row is available in the paginated data table. Hover or click a point to inspect the exact pair. The listening set is deliberately selected and does not cover every point; choose “With audio examples” to find it.

Association is not identity or causation. Repeated scripts, voices, accents, genres and generation instructions co-vary. Retrieval conditions on similarity, and pairs share queries; uncertainty is measured by query clusters. Audio previews are compressed full clips, not inputs to these calculations.

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