CUCall Cantonese Spontaneous Speech (Version 1.0)

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title
  • CUCall Cantonese Spontaneous Speech (Version 1.0)
title.abbreviation
title.alternative
  • Spontaneous Speech (Version 1.0)
  • CUCall Spontaneous Speech (Version 1.0)
creator
  • developer Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), China (http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/v6/en/)
  • researcher P. C. Ching, Department of Electronic Engineering, CUHK (pcching@ee.cuhk.edu.hk)
  • researcher Tan Lee, Department of Electronic Engineering, CUHK (tanlee@ee.cuhk.edu.hk)
  • researcher W. K. Lo, Department of Electronic Engineering, CUHK (wklo@ee.cuhk.edu.hk)
  • researcher Helen Meng, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, CUHK (hmmeng@se.cuhk.edu.hk)
subject
  • telephone speech corpus
subject.linguisticField
  • computational_linguistics
  • discourse_analysis
  • phonetics
subject.monoMultilingual
  • monolingual
subject.resourceSubject
  • corpus speech corpus
description
  • CUCall Spontaneous Speech is a speech (answers to prompted short questions) database of Cantonese collected from large number of speakers, and a part of CUCall, a systematic collection of Cantonese/Putonghua speech data over the telephone networks. It is designed for capturing spontaneous speaking behavior. The corpus contains corresponding phonemic transcriptions. The package also includes CUCall Cantonese Paragraphs 1.0.
description.price *This metadata is only as a guide
  • License Fee for Commercial Use: HK$ 40,000 (mobile) + HK$ 40,000 (fixed-line) (*Includes the price for "Paragraphs Ver 1.0")
  • License Fee for Research Use: HK$ 13,500 (mobile) + HK$ 13,500 (fixed-line) (*Includes the price for "Paragraphs Ver 1.0")
  • Package Discount Price for Non-Commercial Use in Academic Institutions (contains 5 CDROMs of Cantonese Paragraphs, Spontaneous Speech, and Putonghua Speech Verion 1.0s): HK$ 15,000
  • Package Discount Price for Non-Commercial Use in Non-Academic Organizations (contains 5 CDROMs of Cantonese Paragraphs, Spontaneous Speech, and Putonghua Speech Verion 1.0s): HK$ 25,000
description.language
  • English
description.inputDevice
  • fixed_line_telephone
  • mobile_phone
description.inputEnvironment
description.speakingStyle
  • spontaneous_speech
description.speechMode
  • dialogue
description.samplingRate
  • 8 kHz
description.additionalData
  • analysis_parameter phonemic transcripts
publisher
  • Department of Electronic Engineering, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
  • http://dsp.ee.cuhk.edu.hk/speech/cucall/
  • (contact) Prof. Tan Lee, Department of Electronic Engineering, CUHK (tanlee@ee.cuhk.edu.hk)
  • (contact) Prof. Helen Meng, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, CUHK (hmmeng@se.cuhk.edu.hk)
  • (contact) Prof. P. C. Ching, Department of Electronic Engineering, CUHK (pcching@ee.cuhk.edu.hk)
contributor
  • sponsor Innovation and Technology Fund (Innovation and Technology Commission of the Hong Kong SAR Government)
  • sponsor Group Sense Limited
  • sponsor SmarTone Mobile Communication Limited
  • consultant Hong Kong Blind Union
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 over 1000 speakers
contributor.attribute.speaker.dialect
  • dialect Yue Chinese (Cantonese)
contributor.attribute.speaker.level
  • amateur
contributor.attribute.speaker.age
  • adult from 10 to over 60 years old, centered around twenties
  • child from 10 to over 60 years old, centered around twenties
  • senior from 10 to over 60 years old, centered around twenties
contributor.attribute.speaker.gender
  • male
  • female
contributor.attribute.speaker.number
  • number_of_total_speakers 1000
date.created
date.issued
date.modified
type
  • Sound
  • Text phonemic transcripts
type.discourseType
  • interactive_discourse answers to short questions
type.linguisticType
  • primary_text
type.purpose
  • developing_technologies speech recognition
type.style
  • speech dialogue
type.form
  • fixed answers to short questions
type.sentence
  • short
  • long
type.annotation
  • annotated Based on transcription scheme defined by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK)
type.annotationSample
  • [LSHK transcription scheme]
    [1. On sets 聲母]:
    b (巴), p (怕), m (媽), f (花), d (打), t (他), n (那), l (啦), g (家), k (卡), ng (牙), h (蝦 ), gw (瓜), kw (誇), w (蛙), z ( 渣), c (叉), s (沙), j (也)
    [2. Nuclei 韻腹]:
    aa (沙), i (詩/星/識), u(夫/風/福), e ( 些/四), o (疏/蘇), a (新), yu (書), oe (鋸), eo (詢),
    [3. Codas 韻尾]:
    p (濕), t (失) , k (塞), m (心), n (新), ng (生), i (西/需), u (收)
    [4. Syllabic nasals 鼻音單獨成韻]:
    m (唔), ng ( 吳)
    [5. Tones 字調: Tone marks 調號]:
    1 (夫/福), 2 (虎), 3 (副/霍), 4 (扶) , 5 (婦), 6 (父/服) *Examples：fu1 (夫), fu2 (虎), fu3 (副), fu4 (扶), fu5 (婦), fu6 (父)

    The rest is omitted.

    "Cantonese Romanization (Jyut6 Ping3, 1993),"
    http://lshk.ctl.cityu.edu.hk/cantonese.php
type.sample
  • [English Translation of prompts]
    (*Cantonese prompts can be found on page 7 of "Design, compilation and processing of CUCall: a set of Cantonese spoken language corpora collected over telephone networks," W.K. LO, P.C. CHING, Tan LEE and Helen MENG)

    1. Would you please describe the environment of your recording, such as where are you, anybody nearby and anything happening?
    2. Which schools have you been studying at? Such as primary and secondary school. Dig you study other short courses of any kinds?
    3. Are you using a mobile phone? (this is intentional for a short yes-no answer)
    4. In which district of the city do you live? And what is the name of the estate or street?
    5. Besides Cantonese, what other languages do you speak?
    6. What kinds of transportation do you take the most frequently and where do you go?

    "Design, compilation and processing of CUCall: a set of Cantonese spoken language corpora collected over telephone networks," W.K. LO, P.C. CHING, Tan LEE and Helen MENG,
    http://dsp.ee.cuhk.edu.hk/speech/cucall/Documents/LoROCLINGXIV_pp193-212.pdf
format.extent
  • 4 CD-ROMs (2 for mobile data and 2 for fixed-line data. Includes "Paragraphs 1.0" data on the same CDs)
  • Coding: 8kHz sampling, mu-law companding
  • Total Duration of Speech: 8:33:21.42 hours for mobile and 9:25:19.43 hours for fixed-line data
  • Speakers: over 1000 speakers
format.medium
  • CD-ROM
  • Microsoft(R) wave format files
  • .txt files (transcripts and prompts)
format.encoding
  • Big5
format.markup
format.functionality
identifier
identifier.doi
identifier.islrn
source
  • speech data collected over public telephone networks (both fixed-line and mobile), with mobile networks covering GSM, PCS, CDMA, and TDMA
language
  • Yue Chinese
language.area
  • Asia China
relation
relation.utilization *This metadata is automatically extracted
coverage.temporal
coverage.spacial
  • Hong Kong, China
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