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<span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span> <br>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">ELRA is happy to
announce the publication of the Speech resources resulting from the
NEOLOGOS
project in its catalogue. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span
style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="NL">ELRA-S0226-01
IDIOLOGOS 1 “Bootstrap”</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"
lang="NL"> </span><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="NL">(NEOLOGOS
Project)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">It contains the recordings of
1,000 French adult speakers (470 males and 530 females) recorded over
the
French fixed telephone network. The speakers uttered 45 phonetically
rich
sentences. <br>
The 45 sentences were the same for all speakers. See: <span style=""> </span><a
href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=890">http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=890</a>
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style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span
style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">ELRA-S0226-02
IDIOLOGOS 2 “Eingenspeakers” (NEOLOGOS Project)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">It </span><span
style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">contains the
recordings of 200 French adult speakers (97 males and 103 females)
recorded
over the French fixed telephone network. The speakers uttered 45
sentences per
call with 10 calls per speaker. <br>
The 450 sentences per speaker are common to all
speakers. Speakers were selected from the IDIOLOGOS 1 “Bootstrap”
(ELRA-S0226-01) database. <br>
See:<span style=""> </span><a
href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=891">http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=891</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span
style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span
style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="ES">ELRA-S0227
PAIDIALOGOS (NEOLOGOS Project)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">It contains 37,364
utterances from 1,010 French child and teenage speakers (510 males and
500
females) recorded over the French fixed telephone network.<br>
See:<span style=""> </span><a
href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=893">http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=893</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align: justify; page-break-after: avoid;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p>For more
information on the catalogue, please contact Valérie Mapelli </span><span
style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="mailto:mapelli@elda.org"><span
style="" lang="EN-GB">mailto:mapelli@elda.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="text-align: justify; page-break-after: avoid;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt; page-break-after: avoid;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">*** About NEOLOGOS ***<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align: justify; page-break-after: avoid;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">NEOLOGOS, a project
funded by the French government within the Technolangue programme aimed
at
designing speech resources for the development and the assessment of
French
<br>
speech recognition and speech synthesis systems: the PAIDIALOGOS AND
IDIOLOGOS
databases.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align: justify; page-break-after: avoid;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p>PAIDIALOGOS is the
result of a collection of French child and teenage voices, aged 7 to
17,
equally divided into boys and girls, and representative of the
different
regions in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span
style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">France</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span
style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">. <br>
350 speakers were
recorded over the GSM telephone network and 650 over the fixed
telephone
network.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align: justify; page-break-after: avoid;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">IDIOLOGOS tried to
optimize the database contents in terms of diversity of the recorded
voices,
while reducing the number of recorded speakers. Its goal was to build a
reference <br>
database for French adult voices.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align: justify; page-break-after: avoid;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">A description of
the project is available at: </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a
href="http://www.technolangue.net/article.php3?id_article=203"><span
style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;"><span style=""> </span></span><span
style="" lang="EN-GB">http://www.technolangue.net/article.php3?id_article=83
</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">(in
French only).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align: justify; page-break-after: avoid;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="spip" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">*** About Technolangue ***<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="spip" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Technolangue is a French
inter-ministerial-funded
action (Ministry of Research and New Technologies, Ministry of Industry
and
Ministry of Culture and Communication). This programme provides access
to a
number of tools and data necessary to develop technologies and to
enable the
use of standard methodologies in the field. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align: justify; page-break-after: avoid;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">For more
information on the Technolangue programme, please visit: <a
href="http://www.technolangue.net/">http://www.technolangue.net</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="text-align: justify; page-break-after: avoid;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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