Sandipana Dowerah (Multispeech) will defend his thesis, entitled "Deep Learning-based ​Multichannel Speech Enhancement for far-field Speaker Verification", on Tuesday May 30th at 2pm in room C005. Abstract: Smart applications like speaker verification have become essential in verifying the user's identity for availing of personal assistants or online banking services based on the user's voice characteristics. However, far-field or distant speaker verification is constantly affected by surrounding noises which can severely distort the speech signal. Moreover, speech signals propagating in long-range get reflected by various objects in…