Swiss-German Speecon database

registration: 2007/06/29 14:35:32, last modified: 2016/05/26 08:58:37
title
  • Swiss-German Speecon database
title.abbreviation
title.alternative
creator
subject
  • speech corpus
subject.linguisticField
  • phonetics
  • phonology
subject.monoMultilingual
  • monolingual
subject.resourceSubject
  • corpus
description
  • Desktop/Microphone
    The Swiss-German Speecon database is divided into 2 sets:
    1) The first set comprises the recordings of 550 adult Swiss-German 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 Swiss-German speakers (20 boys, 30 girls), recorded over 4 microphone channels in 1 recording environment (children room).

    This database is partitioned into 27 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 (over 290 items for adults and over 210 items for children):

    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
    - 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: 200 speakers are between 15 and 30, 166 speakers are between 31 and 45, 184 speakers are over 46.
    Children: 21 speakers are between 8 and 10, and 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 (4 microphones)
description.inputEnvironment
  • office_room
  • in_car
  • noisy_condition entertainment, public places, children rooms
description.speakingStyle
  • read_speech
  • spontaneous_speech
description.speechMode
  • monologue
  • dialogue answering questions
description.samplingRate
  • 16 kHz
description.additionalData
  • analysis_parameter ASCII SAM label files containing the relevant descriptive information
  • analysis_parameter 4 different recording environments (office, entertainment, car, public place)
  • analysis_parameter a pronunciation lexicon with a phonemic transcription in SAMPA
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
  • child 50 child Swiss-German speakers
  • adult 550 adult Swiss-German speakers
contributor.attribute.speaker.gender
  • male
  • female
contributor.attribute.speaker.number
  • number_of_male_speakers 293
  • number_of_female_speakers 307
  • number_of_total_speakers 600
date.created
date.issued
  • 2007-02-20
date.modified
  • 2007-02-22
type
  • Sound
  • Text
type.discourseType
type.linguisticType
  • primary_text
type.purpose
  • developing_technologies Speech recognition
type.style
  • speech 5 minutes (session time) of free spontaneous, rich context items
  • speech reading (words and sentences)
  • speech answers to questions
type.form
  • unfixed
  • fixed
type.sentence
  • short
  • long
  • isolated_words
type.annotation
  • annotated
type.annotationSample
type.sample
format.extent
  • 27 DVDs(adult)
  • 3 DVDs(child)
format.medium
  • DVD-ROM
format.encoding
  • 16 kHz
  • 16 bit
  • Intel format
format.markup
  • ASCII SAM label file
format.functionality
identifier
identifier.doi
identifier.islrn
  • 712-178-122-730-7
source
language
  • German Switzerland
language.area
  • Europe
relation
relation.utilization *This metadata is automatically extracted
coverage.temporal
coverage.spacial
rights
  • Rights available for: Research Use, Commercial Use