Taiwan Mandarin Speecon database

registration: 2007/08/07 06:09:04, last modified: 2016/05/21 08:32:02
title
  • Taiwan Mandarin Speecon database
title.abbreviation
title.alternative
creator
subject
  • speech database
subject.linguisticField
  • phonetics
subject.monoMultilingual
  • monolingual
subject.resourceSubject
  • corpus
description
  • Desktop/Microphone
    The Taiwan Mandarin Speecon database is divided into 2 sets:
    1) The first set comprises the recordings of 550 adult Taiwanese speakers (273 males, 277 females), recorded over 4 microphone channels in 4 recording environments (office, entertainment, car, public place).
    2) The second set comprises the recordings of 50 child Taiwanese speakers (25 boys, 25 girls), recorded over 4 microphone channels in 1 recording environment (children room).

    This database is partitioned into 56 DVDs (first set) and 3 DVDs (second set).
    The speech databases made within the Speecon project were validated by SPEX, the Netherlands, to assess their compliance with the Speecon format and content specifications.
    Each of the four speech channels is recorded at 16 kHz, 16 bit, uncompressed unsigned integers in Intel format (lo-hi byte order). To each signal file corresponds an ASCII SAM label file which contains the relevant descriptive information.

    Each speaker uttered the following items:
    Calibration data:
    6 noise recordings
    The “silence word” recording
    Free spontaneous items (adults only):
    5 minutes (session time) of free spontaneous, rich context items (story telling) (an open number of spontaneous topics out of a set of 30 topics)
    17 Elicited spontaneous items (adults only):
    3 dates, 2 times, 3 proper names, 2 city names, 1 letter sequence, 2 answers to questions, 3 telephone numbers, 1 language
    Read speech:
    30 phonetically rich sentences uttered by adults and 60 uttered by children
    5 phonetically rich words (adults only)
    4 isolated digits
    1 isolated digit sequence
    4 connected digit sequences
    1 telephone number
    3 natural numbers
    1 money amount
    2 time phrases (T1 : analogue, T2 : digital)
    3 dates (D1 : analogue, D2 : relative and general date, D3 : digital)
    3 letter sequences
    1 proper name
    2 city or street names
    2 questions
    2 special keyboard characters
    1 Web address
    1 email address
    46 core words synonyms
    208 application specific words and phrases per session (adults)
    74 toy commands, 14 phone commands and 34 general commands (children)

    The following age distribution has been obtained:
    Adults: 246 speakers are between 15 and 30, 235 speakers are between 31 and 45, 63 speakers are between 46 and 60, and 6 speakers are over 60.
    Children: 21 speakers are between 7 and 10, 29 speakers are between 11 and 14.

    A pronunciation lexicon with a phonemic transcription in SAMPA is also included.
description.price *This metadata is only as a guide
description.language
  • English
description.inputDevice
  • microphone
description.inputEnvironment
  • office_room
  • in_car
  • noisy_condition entertainment, public places, children rooms
description.speakingStyle
  • read_speech
  • spontaneous_speech
description.speechMode
  • monologue
  • dialogue questions and answers
description.samplingRate
  • 16 kHz
description.additionalData
  • analysis_parameter 4 different recording environments (office, entertainment, car, public place)
  • analysis_parameter ASCII SAM label files containing the relevant descriptive information
  • analysis_parameter a pronunciation lexicon with a phonemic transcription in SAMPA
publisher
contributor
  • the Speecon project
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
  • amateur
contributor.attribute.speaker.age
  • adult
  • child
  • senior 6 speakers are over 60
contributor.attribute.speaker.gender
  • male
  • female
contributor.attribute.speaker.number
  • number_of_male_speakers 298
  • number_of_female_speakers 302
  • number_of_total_speakers 600
date.created
date.issued
  • 2006-03-31
date.modified
  • 2007-02-22
type
  • Sound
  • Text
type.discourseType
type.linguisticType
  • primary_text
type.purpose
  • analysis
type.style
  • speech spontaneous speeches and words
  • speech reading (words and sentences)
type.form
  • fixed
  • unfixed
type.sentence
  • short
  • long
  • isolated_words
type.annotation
  • annotated
type.annotationSample
  • Each line must be delimited by
    OK
    − Mandatory (SAM) mnemonics for label files:
    LHD: SAM 6.1
    DBN: SPEECON_
    SES:
    DIR:
    SRC:
    CCD:
    REP:
    RED:
    RET:
    BEG:
    END:
    SAM: 16000
    SNB: 2, signed
    SBF: lohi}
    SSB: 16
    QNT: PCM
    NCH: 4
    SCD:
    SEX: {MF
type.sample
format.extent
  • 550 adult Taiwanese speakers (273 males, 277 females), recorded over 4 microphone channels in 4 recording environments (office, entertainment, car, public place)
  • the recordings of 50 child Taiwanese speakers (25 boys, 25 girls), recorded over 4 microphone channels in 1 recording environment (children room)
  • 56 DVDs (first set) and 3 DVDs (second set)
format.medium
  • DVD
format.encoding
  • ASCII SAM
format.markup
format.functionality
identifier
identifier.doi
identifier.islrn
  • 247-072-586-962-5
source
  • Microphone
language
  • Chinese Taiwan
language.area
  • Asia
relation
relation.utilization *This metadata is automatically extracted
coverage.temporal
coverage.spacial
rights
  • Rights available for: Research Use, Commercial Use