Speaker recognition is a crucial component of various applications, including biometric authentication, forensic analysis, and personalized virtual assistants. The process involves identifying or verifying a speaker based on unique voice characteristics such as pitch, tone, and speaking style. The steps involved in speaker recognition include feature extraction, preprocessing, training machine learning models, and testing the models on large datasets. Speaker recognition can be categorized into different types, including text-dependent and text-independent systems, and is used for various applications like security, forensic analysis, customer service, and more. However, speaker recognition also comes with challenges such as handling overlapping speech, noisy recordings, and diverse accents, making accurate annotations critical to ensure the success of speaker recognition models. High-quality audio annotation is essential for creating robust speaker recognition datasets, and tools like Encord's audio annotation platform can help streamline the workflow and provide a practical starting point for building speaker recognition pipelines.