A team of speech researchers from the HLTCOE won this year’s best paper award at the Odyssey 2020 conference, the premiere international academic / industry conference for speaker and language recognition. The team consisted of Dr. Daniel Garcia-Romero, Dr. Greg Sell, and Dr. Alan McCree. They were selected for this honor for their paper entitled “”MagNetO: X-vector Magnitude Estimation Network plus Offset for Improved Speaker Recognition.” The award was announced on November 14th at the last day of the Odyssey 2020 conference: http://www.odyssey2020.org/.