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ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update <br>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><big><small><br>
</small></big></font>ELRA is happy to announce that 2 new
Multimodal and 3 new Speech Resources are now available in its
catalogue.<br>
Moreover, two Speech Resources previously announced are now
available at better pricing conditions.<br>
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1) New Language Resources:<br>
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</b><b>ELRA-S0314 LILA Marathi database</b><big><big><big><big><big><span
class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 8pt;
color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><big><br>
</big></span></span></big></big></big></big></big>The
LILA Marathi database comprises 2,002 Marathi speakers (992 males
and 1010 females) recorded over the Korean mobile telephone network.
Each speaker uttered around 46 read and spontaneous items.<br>
For more information, see: <a
href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1136">http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1136</a><br>
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<b>ELRA-S0315 A-SpeechDB</b><big><big><big><big><big><span
class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 8pt;
color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><big><br>
</big></span></span></big></big></big></big></big>A-SpeechDB©
is an Arabic speech database which contains about 20 hours of
continuous speech recorded through one desktop omni microphone by
205 native speakers (about 30% of females and 70% of males), aged
between 20 and 45. Automatically generated transcriptions are
provided with a manually revised version for each sentence. <big><big><big><big><big><span
class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 8pt;
color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><big><big><br>
</big></big></span></span></big></big></big></big></big>For
more information, see: <a
href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1140">http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1140</a><br>
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<b>ELRA-S0316 SmartKom Home (SKH)</b><big><big><big><big><big><span
class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 8pt;
color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><big><br>
</big></span></span></big></big></big></big></big>Release
SKH 1.0 contains 130 recordings in the technical setup ("scenario")
SmartKom Home which should be an intelligent communication assistant
for the private environment. Naive users were asked to test a
"prototype" for a market study not knowing that the system was in
fact controlled by two human operators. They were asked to solve two
tasks in a period of 4.5 minutes while they were left alone with the
system. <big><big><big><big><big><span class="apple-style-span"><span
style="font-size: 8pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><big><big><br>
</big></big></span></span></big></big></big></big></big>For
more information, see: <a
href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1137">http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1137</a><br>
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<b>ELRA-S0317 SmartKom Mobil (SKM)</b><big><big><big><big><big><span
class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 8pt;
color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><big><br>
</big></span></span></big></big></big></big></big>Release
SKM 1.0 contains 146 recordings in the technical setup ("scenario")
SmartKom Mobil which is a portable PDA equipped with a net link and
additional intelligent communication devices. Naive users were asked
to test a "prototype" for a market study not knowing that the system
was in fact controlled by two human operators. They were asked to
solve two tasks in a period of 4,5 min while they were left alone
with the system. <big><big><big><big><big><span
class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 8pt;
color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><big><big><br>
</big></big></span></span></big></big></big></big></big>For
more information, see: <a
href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1138">http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1138</a><br>
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<b>ELRA-S0318 SmartKom Audio (SKAUDIO)</b><big><big><big><big><big><span
class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 8pt;
color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><big><br>
</big></span></span></big></big></big></big></big>
Release SKAUDIO 1.0 contains all audio channel recordings of the
SmartKom corpora SmartKom Public (cf. ELRA-S0136), SmartKom Home
(cf. ELRA-S0316) and SmartKom Mobil (cf. ELRA-S0317). <big><big><big><big><big><span
class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 8pt;
color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><big><big><br>
</big></big></span></span></big></big></big></big></big>For
more information, see: <a
href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1139">http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1139</a><br>
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<b>2) Revised Language Resources (new pricing conditions):</b><br>
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<b>ELRA-S0136 SmartKom Public (SKP)</b><big><big><big><big><big><span
class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 8pt;
color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><big><br>
</big></span></span></big></big></big></big></big>
Release SKP 2.0 contains 172 recordings in the technical setup
("scenario") SmartKom Public which is comparable to a traditional
public phone booth but equipped with additional intelligent
communication devices. Naive users were asked to test a "prototype"
for a market study not knowing that the system was in fact
controlled by two human operators. They were asked to solve two
tasks in a period of 4.5 minutes while they were left alone with the
system. <b><br>
</b>For more information, see: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?cPath=37_39&products_id=1130">http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?cPath=37_39&products_id=1130</a><br>
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<b>ELRA-S0281 LILA Hindi-L1 database</b><big><big><big><big><big><span
class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 8pt;
color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><big><br>
</big></span></span></big></big></big></big></big>The
LILA Hindi-L1 database comprises 2,030 Hindi speakers (1,012 males
and 1,018 females, all speakers with Hindi as first language)
recorded over the Indian mobile telephone network. Each speaker
uttered around 60 read and spontaneous items. <b><br>
</b>For more information, see: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1071">http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1071</a><br>
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For more information on the catalogue, please contact Valérie
Mapelli <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="mailto:mapelli@elda.org">mailto:mapelli@elda.org</a> <br>
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href="http://universal.elra.info">http://universal.elra.info</a> <br>
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