GlobalPhone German

registration: 2007/08/13 08:08:31, last modified: 2016/05/18 08:44:35
title
  • GlobalPhone German
title.abbreviation
title.alternative
creator
  • researcher Karlsruhe University, Germany
subject
  • multilingual speech and text database
subject.linguisticField
  • computational_linguistics
subject.monoMultilingual
  • monolingual
subject.resourceSubject
  • corpus
description
  • Desktop/Microphone
    The GlobalPhone corpus developed in collaboration with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) was designed to provide read speech data for the development and evaluation of large continuous speech recognition systems in the most widespread languages of the world, and to provide a uniform, multilingual speech and text database for language independent and language adaptive speech recognition as well as for language identification tasks.

    The entire GlobalPhone corpus enables the acquisition of acoustic-phonetic knowledge of the following 20 spoken languages: Arabic (ELRA-S0192), Bulgarian (ELRA-S0319), Chinese-Mandarin (ELRA-S0193), Chinese-Shanghai (ELRA-S0194), Croatian (ELRA-S0195), Czech (ELRA-S0196), French (ELRA-S0197), German (ELRA-S0198), Hausa (ELRA-S0347), Japanese (ELRA-S0199), Korean (ELRA-S0200), Polish (ELRA-S0320), Portuguese (Brazilian) (ELRA-S0201), Russian (ELRA-S0202), Spanish (Latin America) (ELRA-S0203), Swedish (ELRA-S0204), Tamil (ELRA-S0205), Thai (ELRA-S0321), Turkish (ELRA-S0206), Vietnamese (ELRA-S0322).

    In each language about 100 sentences were read from each of the 100 speakers. The read texts were selected from national newspapers available via Internet to provide a large vocabulary (up to 65,000 words). The read articles cover national and international political news as well as economic news. The speech is available in 16bit, 16kHz mono quality, recorded with a close-speaking microphone (Sennheiser 440-6) and same recording equipment for all languages. The transcriptions are internally validated and supplemented by special markers for spontaneous effects like stuttering, false starts, and non-verbal effects like laughing and hesitations. Speaker information like age, gender, occupation, etc. as well as information about the recording setup complement the database. The entire GlobalPhone corpus contains over 450 hours of speech spoken by more than 1900 native adult speakers.

    Data is shortened by means of the shorten program written by Tony Robinson, available from Softsound's web page: http://www.softsound.com/ linux distributions, or simulated versions such as cygwin. Alternatively, the data could be delivered unshorten.

    The German corpus was produced using the Frankfurter Allgemeine und Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper. It contains recordings of 77 speakers (70 males, 7 females) recorded in Karlsruhe, Germany. No age distribution is available.
description.price *This metadata is only as a guide
description.language
  • English
  • German
description.inputDevice
  • close_talking_microphone Sennheiser 440-6
description.inputEnvironment
  • office_room
  • living room
description.speakingStyle
  • read_speech
description.speechMode
  • monologue
description.samplingRate
  • 16 kHz
description.additionalData
  • analysis_parameter speaker information (age, gender, occupation, etc.)
  • analysis_parameter recording setup information
publisher
contributor
contributor.attribute.author.motherTongue
  • native
contributor.attribute.author.dialect
  • standard_dialect
contributor.attribute.author.level
  • professional
contributor.attribute.author.age
  • adult
contributor.attribute.author.gender
contributor.attribute.speaker.motherTongue
  • native
contributor.attribute.speaker.dialect
  • standard_dialect
contributor.attribute.speaker.level
  • amateur
contributor.attribute.speaker.age
  • adult No age distribution is available
contributor.attribute.speaker.gender
  • male
  • female
contributor.attribute.speaker.number
  • number_of_male_speakers 70
  • number_of_female_speakers 7
  • number_of_total_speakers 77
date.created
date.issued
  • 2006-01-27
date.modified
  • 2012-11-09
type
  • Sound
type.discourseType
type.linguisticType
  • primary_text
type.purpose
  • developing_technologies Speech and Language Recearch and Development
  • developing_technologies speech recognition systems
type.style
  • speech reading (newspaper articles)
type.form
  • unfixed
type.sentence
  • short
  • long
type.annotation
  • annotated
type.annotationSample
type.sample
format.extent
  • approximately 20 hours
  • about 150.000 word transcripts
  • 16-bit
format.medium
  • DVD
format.encoding
  • PCM
format.markup
format.functionality
identifier
identifier.doi
identifier.islrn
  • 937-733-002-847-8
source
  • the Frankfurter Allgemeine und Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper
language
  • German
language.area
  • Europe
relation
relation.utilization *This metadata is automatically extracted
coverage.temporal
  • 1995-1998
coverage.spacial
rights
  • Rights available for: Research Use, Commercial Use