Mandarin Chinese Desktop Speech Recognition Corpus - Person name (849 people)

registration: 2007/06/22 03:59:58, last modified: 2016/08/17 13:32:22
title
  • Mandarin Chinese Desktop Speech Recognition Corpus - Person name (849 people)
title.abbreviation
title.alternative
creator
subject
  • speech corpus
subject.linguisticField
subject.monoMultilingual
  • monolingual
subject.resourceSubject
  • corpus
description
  • Desktop/Microphone
    This corpus comprises 2,250 entries uttered by 849 speakers of different dialects, ages and various educational levels (420 males and 429 females), recorded over 2 channels (Mic1: SHURE SM58; Mic2: Labtec Axis-002). The database comprises 12,750 person names per channel. Speech samples are stored as a sequence of 16-bit 44.1kHz WAV for 18.3 hours of speech per channel. The total capacity of the data is 11 Gb.
    Each speaker read 15 items. Text files are stored in Unicode format. All data have been proofread manually.
    The transcriptions include non-speech markers (background noise, background speech, speaker sounds) as well as markers for mispronunciation, channel distortions, words left-out and duplicates.
    The corpus aims to be applied to the testing and telephone natural speech recognition system.
description.price *This metadata is only as a guide
description.language
  • English
description.inputDevice
  • desktop_microphone SHURE SM58
  • close_talking_microphone Labtec Axis-002
description.inputEnvironment
description.speakingStyle
  • read_speech
description.speechMode
  • monologue
description.samplingRate
  • 44.1 kHz
description.additionalData
  • analysis_parameter Transcriptions including non-speech markers (background noise, background speech, speaker sounds) as well as markers for mispronunciation, channel distortions, words left-out and duplicates
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
  • dialect
contributor.attribute.speaker.level
  • amateur
contributor.attribute.speaker.age
  • adult
contributor.attribute.speaker.gender
  • male
  • female
contributor.attribute.speaker.number
  • number_of_male_speakers 420
  • number_of_female_speakers 429
  • number_of_total_speakers 849
date.created
date.issued
  • 2007-01-17
date.modified
  • 2009-09-24
type
  • Sound
  • Text
type.discourseType
type.linguisticType
  • primary_text
type.purpose
  • developing_technologies
type.style
  • speech reading (person names)
type.form
  • fixed
type.sentence
  • isolated_words
type.annotation
  • annotated
type.annotationSample
type.sample
format.extent
  • 18.3 hours of speech
  • 11 GB
format.medium
format.encoding
  • 16-bit 44.1kHz WAV
  • Unicode format
format.markup
format.functionality
identifier
identifier.doi
identifier.islrn
  • 222-503-248-263-3
source
  • Microphone
language
  • Mandarin Chinese
  • Chinese
language.area
  • Asia
relation
relation.utilization *This metadata is automatically extracted
coverage.temporal
coverage.spacial
rights
  • Rights available for: Research Use, Commercial Use