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ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update<br>
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ELRA is happy to announce that 4 new Speech Resources are now available
in its catalogue. <br>
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<b>ELRA-S0157 NetDC Arabic BNSC (Broadcast News Speech Corpus) <br>
</b>The NetDC Arabic BNSC (Broadcast News Speech Corpus) is a corpus
developed by ELDA in the framework of the European-funded project
Network
of Data Centres (NetDC). The project was done in collaboration with the
LDC (Linguistic Data Consortium), which has produced a similar corpus
from the news broadcasted by Voice of America Arabic in the United
States. The database contains ca. 22.5 hours of broadcast news speech
recorded from Radio Orient (France) during a 3-month period. <br>
For more information, see:
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href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=13&language=en">http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=13&language=en</a>
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<b>ELRA-S0232 Swiss-German Speecon database <br>
</b>The Swiss-German Speecon database comprises the recordings of 550
adult Swiss-German speakers and 50 child Swiss-German speakers who
uttered respectively over 290 items and 210 items (read and
spontaneous). <br>
For more information, see: <a
href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=982&language=en">http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=982&language=en</a>
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<b>ELRA-S0233 US English Speecon database <br>
</b>The US English Speecon database comprises the recordings of 550
adult Swiss-German speakers and 50 child Swiss-German speakers who
uttered respectively over 290 items and 210 items (read and
spontaneous). <br>
For more information, see: <a
href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=983&language=en">http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=983&language=en</a>
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<b>ELRA-S0234 SALA Spanish Chilean Database <br>
</b>The SALA Spanish Chilean Database comprises 1,024 Chilean speakers
(477 males, 547 females) recorded over the Chilean fixed telephone
network. <br>
For more information, see: <a
href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=981&language=en">http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=981&language=en</a>
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Moreover, the contents of the following two LC-STAR phonetic lexica was
updated:<br>
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<b>ELRA-S0207 LC-STAR Catalan phonetic lexicon <br>
</b>The LC-STAR Catalan phonetic lexicon comprises more than 100,000
words, including a set of more than 45,000 common words and a set of
more than 45,000 proper names (including person names, family names,
cities, streets, companies and brand names) with phonetic
transcriptions in SAMPA. The lexicon is provided in XML format. <br>
For more information, see: <a
href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=832&language=en">http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=832&language=en</a>
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<b>ELRA-S0208 LC-STAR Spanish phonetic lexicon <br>
</b>The LC-STAR Spanish phonetic lexicon comprises more than 100,000
words, including a set of more than 45,000 common words and a set of
more than 45,000 proper names (including person names, family names,
cities, streets, companies and brand names) with phonetic
transcriptions in SAMPA. The lexicon is provided in XML format. <br>
For more information, see: <a
href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=833&language=en">http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=833&language=en</a>
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For more information on the catalogue, please contact Valérie Mapelli <a
href="mailto:mapelli@elda.org">mailto:mapelli@elda.org</a> <br>
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