<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><br></div><div>We are proud to announce the release of the HESITA Corpus, a large collection of annotations of hesitations/disfluencies events, acoustical environments, speaking styles, speaker characteristics and respiratory events, among other characteristic sounds.<br><br>The corpus consists of television daily news broadcasts audio collected over a month (about 27 hours of European Portuguese continuous speech), out of which a total of 4608 hesitation events are annotated.<br><br><br>This corpus is accompanied by the paper:<br><br>"HESITA(tions) in Portuguese: a database."<br><br>Candeias, S., Celorico, D., Proença, J., Perdigão, F.<br><br>DiSS 2013, ISCA endorsed Interspeech 2013 satellite workshop, August 21-23, 2013, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.<br><br> <br>The download site is:<br><br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lsi.co.it.pt/spl/hesitation/downloads.html">http://lsi.co.it.pt/spl/hesitation/downloads.html</a></div></div><div><br></div></body></html>