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The performance of state-of-the-art i-vector speaker verification systems relies on a large amount of training data for probabilistic linear discriminant analysis (PLDA) modeling. During the evaluation, it is also crucial that the target condition data is matched well with the development data used for PLDA training. However, in many practical scenarios, these systems have to be developed, and trained, using data that is often outside the domain of the intended application, since the collection of a significant amount of in-domain data is often difficult. Experimental studies have found that PLDA speaker verification performance degrades significantly due to this development/evaluation mismatch. This paper introduces a domain-invariant linear discriminant analysis (DI-LDA) technique for out-domain PLDA speaker verification that compensates domain mismatch in the LDA subspace. We also propose a domain-invariant …