Serial Speakers: a Dataset of TV Series

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For over a decade, TV series have been drawing increasing interest, both from the audience and from various academic fields.

• But while most viewers are hooked on the continuous plots of TV serials, the few annotated datasets available to researchers focus on standalone episodes of classical TV series.
• We aim at filling this gap by providing the multimedia/speech processing communities with Serial Speakers, an annotated dataset of 161 episodes from three popular American TV serials: Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones and House of Cards.
• Serial Speakers is suitable both for investigating multimedia retrieval in realistic use case scenarios, and for addressing lower level speech related tasks in especially challenging conditions.