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ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update <br>
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</small></big></font>ELRA is happy to announce that 14 new
Speech Resources are now available in its catalogue.<br>
<b><br>
</b><b>ELRA-S0324 Catalan-SpeechDat For the Fixed Telephone Network
Database<br>
</b>This speech database contains the recordings of 2000 Catalan
speakers who called from Fixed telephones and who are recorded over
the fixed PSTN using and ISDN-BRI interface. Each speaker uttered
around 50 read and spontaneous items. The speech database follows
the specifications made within the SpeechDat (II) project. The
database was validated by UVIGO. The Catalan-SpeechDat for the Fixed
Telephone Network Database was funded by the Catalan Government. <big><big><big><big><big><span
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<b>ELRA-S0325 Catalan-SpeechDat for the Mobile Telephone Network
Database<br>
</b>This speech database contains the recordings of 2000 Catalan
speakers who called from GSM telephones and who are recorded over
the fixed PSTN using and ISDN-BRI interface. Each speaker uttered
around 50 read and spontaneous items. The speech database follows
the specifications made within the SpeechDat (II) project. The
database was validated by UVIGO. The Catalan-SpeechDat for the
Mobile Telephone Network Database was funded by the Catalan
Government. <big><big><big><big><big><span class="apple-style-span"><span
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<b>ELRA-S0326 Catalan SpeechDat-Car database<br>
</b>The Catalan SpeechDat-Car database contains the in-car
recordings of 300 speakers who uttered from around 120 read and
spontaneous items. Each speaker recorded two sessions. Recordings
have been made through 4 different channels, via in-car microphones
(1 close-talk microphone, 3 far-talk microphones). The 300 Catalan
speakers were selected from 5 different dialectal regions and are
balanced in gender and age groups. The database was validated by
UVIGO. The Catalan-SpeechDat-Car Database was funded by the Catalan
Government. <big><big><big><big><big><span class="apple-style-span"><span
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<b>ELRA-S0327 Catalan Speecon database<br>
</b>The Catalan Speecon database comprises the recordings of 550
adult Catalan speakers who uttered over 290 items (read and
spontaneous). The data were recorded over 4 microphone channels in 4
recording environments (office, entertainment, car, public place).
The speech database follows the specifications made within the UE
funded Speecon project. The database was validated by UVIGO. The
Catalan-Speecon Database was funded by the Catalan Government. <big><big><big><big><big><span
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ELRA-S0328 Spanish EUROM.1<br>
</b> EUROM1 is a multilingual European speech database. It contains
over 60 speakers per language who pronounced numbers, sentences,
isolated words ... using close talking microphone in an anecoic
room. Equivalent corpora for each of the European languages exist
already, with the same number of speakers selected in the same way,
and recorded in the same conditions with common file formats. <big><big><big><big><big><span
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<b>ELRA-S0329 Emotional speech synthesis database<br>
</b> This database contains the recordings of one male and one
female Spanish professional speakers recorded in a noise-reduced
room. It consists in recordings and annotations of read text
material in neutral style plus six MPEG expressions, all in fast,
slow, soft and loud speech styles. The text material is composed of
184 items including phonetically balanced sentences, digits and
isolated words. The text material was the same for all the modes and
styles, giving a total of 3h 59min recorded speech for the male
speaker and 3h 53min for the female speaker. The Emotional speech
synthesis database was created within the scope of the Interface EU
funded project. <big><big><big><big><big><span
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<b>ELRA-S0330 FESTCAT Catalan TTS baseline male speech database<br>
</b> This database contains the recordings of one male Catalan
professional speaker recorded in a noise-reduced room simultaneously
through a close talk microphone, a mid distance microphone and a
laryngograph signal. This database consists in the recordings and
annotations of read text material of approximately 10 hours of
speech for baseline applications (Text-to-Speech systems). The
FESTCAT Catalan TTS Baseline Male Speech Database was created within
the scope of the FESTCAT project, funded by the Catalan Government.
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<b>ELRA-S0331 FESTCAT Catalan TTS baseline female speech database<br>
</b> This database contains the recordings of one female Catalan
professional speaker recorded in a noise-reduced room simultaneously
through a close talk microphone, a mid distance microphone and a
laryngograph signal. It consists in the recordings and annotations
of read text material of approximately 10 hours of speech for
baseline applications (Text-to-Speech systems). The FESTCAT Catalan
TTS Baseline Female Speech Database was created within the scope of
the FESTCAT project funded by the Catalan Government. <big><big><big><big><big><span
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<b>ELRA-S0332 FESTCAT Catalan TTS baseline speech database - 8
speakers<br>
</b> This database contains the recordings of four female and four
male Catalan professional speakers recorded in a noise-reduced room
simultaneously through a close talk microphone, a mid distance
microphone and a laryngograph signal. It consists of the recordings
and annotations of read text material of approximately 1 hour of
speech per speaker for baseline applications (Text-to-Speech
systems). The FESTCAT Catalan TTS baseline speech database - 8
speakers was created within the scope of the FESTCAT project funded
by the Catalan Government. <big><big><big><big><big><span
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<b>ELRA-S0333 Spanish Festival HTS models - male speech<br>
</b> This database contains the Festival HTS models trained with 10h
of speech from the TC-STAR Spanish Baseline Male Speech Database
(ELRA-S0310). <big><big><big><big><big><span
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<b>ELRA-S0334 Spanish Festival HTS models - female speech<br>
</b> This database contains the Festival HTS models trained with 10h
of speech from the TC-STAR Spanish Baseline Female Speech Database
(ELRA-S0309). <big><big><big><big><big><span
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<b>ELRA-S0335 Bilingual (Spanish-English) Speech synthesis HTS
models<br>
</b> This database contains Bilingual (English and Spanish) Festival
HTS models. Models were trained with 9h of speech from 2 female
bilingual speakers and 2 male bilingual speakers. Each speaker
recorded 2h 15 min per language. The speech data can be found in the
TC-STAR Bilingual Voice-Conversion Spanish Speech Database
(ELRA-S0311) and in the TC-STAR Bilingual Expressive Spanish Speech
Database (ELRA-S0313). <big><big><big><big><big><span
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<b>ELRA-S0336 Spanish Festival voice male<br>
</b> This database contains the recordings of one male Spanish
speaker recorded in a noise-reduced room simultaneously through a
close talk microphone, a mid distance microphone and a laryngograph
signal. This comprises read text material of approximately 10 hours
of speech for baseline applications (Text-to-Speech systems). The
database includes Festival-compatible annotations. The recordings
can be also found under TC-STAR Spanish Baseline Male Speech
Database (ELRA-S0310). <big><big><big><big><big><span
class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 8pt;
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<b>ELRA-S0337 Spanish Festival voice female<br>
</b> This database contains the recordings of one female Spanish
speaker recorded in a noise-reduced room simultaneously through a
close talk microphone, a mid distance microphone and a laryngograph
signal, of read text material of approximately 10 hours of speech
for baseline applications (Text-to-Speech systems). The database
includes Festival-compatible annotations. The recordings can be also
found under TC-STAR Spanish Baseline Female Speech Database
(ELRA-S0309). <big><big><big><big><big><span
class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 8pt;
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