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Date: 26 Feb 2007
From:reposted from LINGUIST
Subject:ELRA Language Resources

Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:13:21
From: Hélène Mazo < mazo at elda.org >
Subject: ELRA Language Resources Catalogue Update 2/07 -2



ELRA Language Resources Catalogue - Update

ELRA is happy to announce that 4 new Speech Resources are now  
available in
its catalogue.

ELRA-S0157 NetDC Arabic BNSC (Broadcast News Speech Corpus)

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.
For more information, see:
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=13&language=en

ELRA-S0232 Swiss-German Speecon Database

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).
For more information, see:
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=982&language=en

ELRA-S0233 US English Speecon Database

The US English Speecon database comprises the recordings of 550 adult US
English speakers and 50 child US English speakers who uttered  
respectively
over 290 items and 210 items (read and spontaneous).
For more information, see:
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=983&language=en

ELRA-S0234 SALA Spanish Chilean Database

The SALA Spanish Chilean Database comprises 1,024 Chilean speakers (477
males, 547 females) recorded over the Chilean fixed telephone network.
For more information, see:
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=981&language=en


Moreover, the contents of the following two LC-STAR phonetic lexica was
updated:

ELRA-S0207 LC-STAR Catalan Phonetic Lexicon

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.
For more information, see:
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=832&language=en

ELRA-S0208 LC-STAR Spanish Phonetic Lexicon

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.
For more information, see:
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=833&language=en

For more information on the catalogue, please contact Valérie Mapelli
mailto:mapelli at elda.org

Our on-line catalogue has moved to the following address:
http://catalog.elra.info. Please update your bookmarks.
Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

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