Colombian Spanish Speech Database

registration: 2007/06/14 09:55:37, last modified: 2016/05/23 15:18:16
title
  • Colombian Spanish Speech Database
title.abbreviation
title.alternative
creator
  • author Asunción Moreno
subject
  • speech corpus
subject.linguisticField
subject.monoMultilingual
  • monolingual
subject.resourceSubject
  • corpus
description
  • Telephone
    The Colombian Spanish speech database contains the recordings of 1,065 speakers (563 males and 502 females) recorded over the fixed telephone network using an E-1 interface.

    The speech data were collected from Colombia.

    Speech samples are stored as sequences of 8-bit 8 kHz A-law, and uncompressed (CCITT G.711 recommendation). Each prompted utterance is stored within a separate file. Each speech file has an accompanying ASCII SAM label file. Speech file format and SAM label files follow the specifications given by the SpeechDat project.

    The recording platform used an ISDN basic access (BR1) interface.

    The speakers were mainly recruited from Siemens personnel, students from several Colombian universities, and their relatives.

    The following sex and age distribution has been obtained: 56 speakers are under 16 (38 males, 18 females), 542 speakers are between 16 and 30 (277 males, 265 females), 347 speakers are between 31 and 45 (178 males, 169 females), 99 speakers are between 46 and 60 (59 males, 40 females) and 21 speakers are over 60 (11 males, 10 females).

    The transcription included in this database is an orthographic transcription with a few details that represent audible acoustic events (speech and non speech) present in the corresponding waveform files. A lexicon is also provided.

    Non-Speech Acoustic Events have been arranged into 4 categories (filled pause, speaker noise, stationary noise and intermittent noise) and are transcribed.

    Type of resource : Speech recordings (Acoustic)
    Speech mode : Read
    Recording conditions: ISDN telephone interface
    Language: Colombian Spanish
    Sex and number of speakers: 1,065 speakers (563 males and 502 females)
    Linguistic annotation: Orthographic (+ transcription of audible noises)
    File format: 8 bits, A-law
    Standard in use: SAM
    Phoeme set: SAMPA
    Sampling rate (kHz): 8 kHz
    Distribution media: 1 CD-ROM
    Related resources: SpeechDat family. Other languages available.
description.price *This metadata is only as a guide
description.language
  • English
description.inputDevice
  • fixed_line_telephone
description.inputEnvironment
description.speakingStyle
  • read_speech
description.speechMode
  • monologue
description.samplingRate
  • 8 kHz
description.additionalData
  • analysis_parameter ASCII SAM label file
  • analysis_parameter an orthographic transcription with a few details that represent audible acoustic events (speech and non speech) present in the corresponding waveform files
  • analysis_parameter A lexicon
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
  • child 56 speakers are under 16
  • senior 21 speakers are over 60
contributor.attribute.speaker.gender
  • male
  • female
contributor.attribute.speaker.number
  • number_of_male_speakers 563
  • number_of_female_speakers 502
  • number_of_total_speakers 1065
date.created
date.issued
  • 2005-05-02
date.modified
  • 2007-08-28
type
  • Text
  • Sound
type.discourseType
type.linguisticType
  • primary_text
type.purpose
  • developing_technologies
type.style
type.form
  • unfixed
type.sentence
  • short
  • long
type.annotation
  • annotated
type.annotationSample
type.sample
format.extent
format.medium
  • CD-ROM
format.encoding
  • ISO 9660
format.markup
  • ASCII SAM label file
format.functionality
identifier
identifier.doi
identifier.islrn
  • 260-277-550-048-8
source
  • Telephone
language
  • Spanish Colombia Spanish
language.area
  • America
relation
relation.utilization *This metadata is automatically extracted
coverage.temporal
coverage.spacial
rights
  • Rights available for: Research Use, Commercial Use