speech resources for Russian and Slovenian
K E Robblee
robblee at virginia.edu
Wed Oct 28 14:07:16 UTC 1998
The following information on speech resources for Russian and Slovenian
might interest members of this list. --Karen Robblee
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>___________________________________________________________
> ELRA
> European Language Resources Association
> ELRA News
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> *** ELRA NEW RESOURCES ***
>
>
>We are happy to announce new speech resources available via ELRA:
>
>1) ELRA-S0052 FIXED0IT - Italian Fixed Network Speech (SpeechDat(M)) Corpus
>- DB1
>2) ELRA-S0053 FIXED0IT - Italian Fixed Network Speech (SpeechDat(M)) Corpus
>- DB2
>3) ELRA-S0054 Chilean Spanish FDB-250
>4) ELRA-S0055 Russian SpeechDat-like FDB-1000
>5) ELRA-S0056 Slovenian SpeechDat(II) FDB-1000
>6) ELRA-S0057 Shanghai Mandarin FDB-1000
>7) ELRA-S0058 RVG1 (Regional Variants of German 1, Part 1)
>
>
>Below a description of each resource:
>
>
>1) ELRA-S0052 FIXED0IT - Italian Fixed Network Speech (SpeechDat(M)) Corpus
> DB1 Phonetically rich sentences & application oriented utterances
>
>The Italian Fixed Network Speech Corpus version 1.0 was recorded within the
>scope of the SpeechDat(M) project (LRE-63314), funded by the European
>Commission. Recording was done by using a primary rate ISDN interface,
>yielding 8 kHz, 8 bits per sample, A-law coded signal. The data files are
>formatted according to the SAM European project. The speech data are
>compressed with the GNU gzip program. All software needed to use the corpus
>is provided on the CDs.
>
>The corpus contains the speech of about 1000 speakers (about 500 male and
>500 female) and was designed to support the creation of voice-driven
>teleservices. The callers spoke at least 39 items, comprising:
> isolated and connected digits,
> natural numbers,
> money amounts,
> spelled words,
> time and date phrases,
> yes/no questions,
> city names,
> common application words,
> application words in phrases,
> phonetically rich sentences.
>Most items are read, some are spontaneously spoken.
>
>The recordings come with extensive and standardised documentation. All
>speech is carefully transcribed at the orthographic level; in addition, a
>number of clearly audible non-speech events are included in the
>transcription. Moreover, age and regional background of the speakers are
>provided. A pronunciation dictionary is added, containing all words that
>occur in the corpus, with a corresponding SAMPA broad-class phonemic
>transcription.
>
>Validation and premastering of the CD-ROMs were performed by the Speech
>Processing Expertise Centre (SPEX), Leidschendam, The Netherlands.
>
>Price for ELRA members:
> for research use: 11000 ECU
> for commercial use: 14000 ECU
>
>Price for non members:
> for research use: 20000 ECU
> for commercial use: 20000 ECU
>____________________________________________
>
>2) ELRA-S0053 FIXED0IT - Italian Fixed Network Speech (SpeechDat(M)) Corpus
> DB2 Phonetically rich sentences sub-set
>
>See ELRA-S0052 for description. DB2 is a sub-set of DB1; it contains only
>the phonetically rich sentences items.
>
>Price for ELRA members:
> for research use: 8,800 ECU
> for commercial use: 14,000 ECU
>
>Price for non members:
> for research use: 14,000 ECU
> for commercial use: 20,000 ECU
>____________________________________________
>
>3) ELRA-S0054 Chilean Spanish FDB-250
>
>This speech database gathers Spanish data as spoken in Chile. All
>participants are native speakers. The corpus consists of read speech,
>including digits and application words for teleservices, recorded through
>an ISDN card. The whole database consists of 6.45 hours of speech, with 24
>utterances per speaker. There is a total of 250 speakers (68 male, 80
>female, 102 untagged). Except for the 102 untagged speakers, the age class
>is divided as follows: 15 speakers are less than 16 year old, 72 speakers
>are between age 16 to 30, 44 speakers are between age 31 to 45, and 14
>speakers are between age 46 to 60 (and 102 untagged).
>
>The callers spoke 74 different items in total:
> isolated digits,
> yes/no,
> common application words.
>
>The data is provided with orthographic transliteration for all 6,000
>utterances including 4 categories of non-speech acoustic events. A phonetic
>lexicon with canonical transcription in SAMPA is also included.
>
>The speech files are stored as sequences of 8 bits 8 kHz A-law samples.
>Data are stored in a SAM file format.
>
>Price for ELRA members: 5,000 ECU
>Price for non members: 7,500 ECU
>____________________________________________
>
>4) ELRA-S0055 Russian SpeechDat-like FDB-1000
>
>This speech database gathers Russian data. The corpus consists of read and
>spontaneous speech, recorded through an ISDN card, and was validated and
>accepted according to the SpeechDat(II) database exchange format. The whole
>database consists of 72 hours of speech, with approx. 49 prompted
>utterances per speaker. A total of 1000 speakers was recorded (500 male,
>500 female). These are native speakers from 5 regions, mainly from Moscow
>and St. Petersburg (803 speakers). The speakers age class is divided as
>follows: 16 speakers are less than 16 year old, 340 speakers are between
>age 16 to 30, 345 speakers are between age 31 to 45, 255 speakers are
>between age 46 to 60, and 44 speakers are above age 60.
>
>The callers spoke the following items:
> isolated and connected digits,
> natural numbers,
> money amounts,
> spelled words,
> time and date phrases,
> yes/no,
> city names,
> common application words,
> application words in phrases,
> phonetically rich sentences.
>
>The data is provided with orthographic transliteration for all 48,812
>utterances including 4 categories of non-speech acoustic events. A phonetic
>lexicon with canonical pronunciation is also provided.
>
>The speech files are stored as sequences of 8 bits 8 kHz A-law samples. The
>data is stored in a SAM file format (4 CD-ROMs).
>
>Price for ELRA members: 14,000 ECU
>Price for non members: 20,000 ECU
>____________________________________________
>
>5) ELRA-S0056 Slovenian SpeechDat(II) FDB-1000
>
>The Slovenian SpeechDat(II) FDB-1000 consists of read and spontaneous
>speech, recorded through an ISDN card, and was validated and accepted
>according to the SpeechDat(II) database exchange format. The corpus
>includes about 1000 speakers (about 500 male and 500 female) who called
>over the Slovenian fixed network. All are native speakers of Slovenian from
>all dialect regions of Slovenia.
>
>The callers spoke the following items:
> isolated and connected digits,
> natural numbers,
> money amounts,
> spelled words,
> time and date phrases,
> yes/no,
> city names,
> common application words,
> application words in phrases,
> phonetically rich sentences.
>
>The speech files are stored as sequences of 8 bits 8 kHz A-law samples. The
>data is stored in a SAM file format (CD-ROMs). A phonetic lexicon with
>canonical transcriptions in SAMPA is also provided.
>
>Price for ELRA members: 14,000 ECU
>Price for non members: 20,000 ECU
>____________________________________________
>
>6) ELRA-S0057 Shanghai Mandarin FDB-1000
>
>This acoustic database gathers Mandarin data, as spoken in Shanghai as a
>first or second Chinese dialect/language. The corpus consists of read
>speech, including digits and application words for teleservices, recorded
>through an ISDN card. A total of 70 utterances was prompted by each
>speaker. About 1000 speakers were recorded (500 male, 500 female).
>
>The callers spoke the following items:
> isolated digits,
> yes/no,
> city names,
> common application words and phrases.
>
>The data is provided with Chinese characters and English translation,
>canonical Pinyin transcription including tone markers, and several
>categories of non-speech events.
>
>The speech files are stored as sequences of 8 bits 8 kHz A-law samples.
>Signal and annotation files are stored separately.
>
>Price for ELRA members: 10,000 ECU
>Price for non members: 15,000 ECU
>____________________________________________
>
>7) ELRA-S0058 RVG1 (Regional Variants of German 1, Part 1)
>
>The corpus consists of single digits, connected digits, phone numbers,
>phonetically balanced sentences, computer command phrases and spontaneous
>speech. Each speaker has read a subcorpus of 85 items:
> 11 single digits (0-9, with the two pronunciations of 2 (zwei,
>zwo)),
> 19 connected digits (10-19, 20-100 in steps of ten),
> 12 computer command phrases,
> 30 phonetically balanced sentences,
> 5 6-digit phone numbers,
> 5 7-digit phone numbers,
> 2 phone numbers with area code,
> 1 minute spontaneous speech (monologue).
>
>The speaker was placed in front of a standard IBM-compatible PC. The
>backround noise was limited to the usual noise in office environment, eg.
>door slam, backround crosstalk, phone ringing, paper rustle, PC noise, etc.
>The head of the speaker is in a range between 2-4 feet to the screen, 1-2
>feet from the desktop microphones. The speaker is not forced into a special
>position. The speaker is wearing a Sennheiser HD 410 and is free to use the
>keyboard or the mouse in front of him. The three desktop microphones are:
>Sennheiser MD 441 U, Telex (Soundblaster) and Talk Back (AT&T). Speakers
>were selected to achieve the demoscopic density of the German spoken areas
>in Europe (including Austria and Switzerland).
>
>The recorded sound samples are stored in NIST SPHERE format. The resolution
>is 16 Bits. The sampling frequency is 22.050 Hz except for speakers 001 to
>036 which were recorded with 11.025 Hz. Each microphone channel is stored
>into a separate file. A transliteration of spontaneous speech according to
>Verbmobil Format is also provided.
>
>RVG1, Part 1 contains 197 speakers recorded through 2 microphones.
>(RVG1, Part 2, with 303 speakers recorded through 2 microphones will be
>available from the beginning of 1999.)
>
>Price for ELRA members:
> for research use: 4,949 ECU
> for commercial use: 8,198 ECU
>
>Price for non members:
> for research use: 5,838 ECU
> for commercial use: 9,898 ECU
>
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