Siemens Synthesis Corpus - SI1000P

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title
  • Siemens Synthesis Corpus - SI1000P
title.abbreviation
title.alternative
creator
subject
  • Synthesis Corpus
subject.linguisticField
  • phonetics
subject.monoMultilingual
  • monolingual
subject.resourceSubject
  • corpus
description
  • Desktop/Microphone
    The SI1000P recordings were done to provide material for high quality concatenate speech synthesis. It contains 1000 newspaper sentences read by two German professional broadcasting announcers in studio quality together with the laryngographic signal and the glottal pulse stream. Parts of the corpus were labelled and segmented phonemically (SAM-PA) and prosodically (borders + accents).

    Both speakers are trained and experienced broadcast announcers at the local state broadcasting unit. They were asked to read the texts in a speaking style like broadcast announcing, very correct, but fluently and without pausing between words.

    The recordings were done in a total echo-cancelling studio at the Institute of Phonetics at the University of Munich. Recording channels were:
    - speech signal recorded by Sennheiser MKH20 omnidirectional, 30 cm from mouth.
    - laryngograph signal, LxProc of Laryngograph Ltd. London.
    - glottis pulse stream by laryngograph
    - start/stop pulse at beginning and end of utterance
    Recording machine was a high quality 4 channel DAT (48 kHz, 16 bit). The data were copied to hard disk and cut according the pulse information in the forth channel into separate utterances (one utterance per file).

    Speech signals were filtered and down-sampled from 48 kHz to 16 kHz. Laryngograph signals were filtered and downsampled to 16 kHz. The format of the signal files is PhonDat 2.

    The resulting segmentation and all information accompanying the signal is summed up in the corresponding Partitur File. The Partitur File format is an open structure that allows the easy description and processing of information aligned to a speech signal.

    The database also provides an ordered list of all occurring words together with the standard pronunciation in SAM-PA and the orthography of all spoken utterances in the corpus.
description.price *This metadata is only as a guide
description.language
description.inputDevice
  • desktop_microphone Sennheiser MKH20
description.inputEnvironment
  • sound_proof_room a total echo-cancelling studio
description.speakingStyle
  • read_speech
description.speechMode
  • monologue
description.samplingRate
  • 16 kHz
description.additionalData
  • analysis_parameter laryngographic signals
  • analysis_parameter glottis pulse stream by laryngograph
  • analysis_parameter start/stop pulse at the beginning and end of utterance
  • analysis_parameter partitur files containing segmentation and all information accompanying the signal
publisher
contributor
contributor.attribute.author.motherTongue
contributor.attribute.author.dialect
contributor.attribute.author.level
contributor.attribute.author.age
contributor.attribute.author.gender
contributor.attribute.speaker.motherTongue
  • native
contributor.attribute.speaker.dialect
  • standard_dialect
contributor.attribute.speaker.level
  • professional
contributor.attribute.speaker.age
  • adult
contributor.attribute.speaker.gender
contributor.attribute.speaker.number
  • number_of_total_speakers 2
date.created
date.issued
  • 2004-09-14
date.modified
  • 2005-05-09
type
  • Sound
type.discourseType
type.linguisticType
  • primary_text
type.purpose
  • developing_technologies to provide material for high quality concatenate speech synthesis
type.style
  • speech
type.form
  • unfixed
type.sentence
  • short
  • long
type.annotation
type.annotationSample
type.sample
format.extent
  • 1000 newspaper sentences read by two German professional broadcasting announcers
format.medium
  • DVD
format.encoding
format.markup
format.functionality
identifier
identifier.doi
identifier.islrn
  • 389-408-959-715-2
source
  • Microphone
language
  • German
language.area
  • Europe
relation
relation.utilization *This metadata is automatically extracted
coverage.temporal
coverage.spacial
rights
  • Rights available for: Commercial Use, Research Use