BIT-TonalName

registration: 2008/02/27 06:19:30, last modified: 2014/04/23 05:50:46
title
  • BIT-TonalName
title.abbreviation
title.alternative
  • Tonally Confusing Name Speech Corpus
creator
  • developer Modern Communication Lab of Beijing Institute of Technology
subject
  • read speech corpus
subject.linguisticField
  • phonology
subject.monoMultilingual
  • monolingual
subject.resourceSubject
  • corpus speech corpus
description
  • The BIT-TonalName corpus contains 8,000 utterances of Chinese names and can be used for the study of Chinese name recognition and the influence of tonal information. The 100 pairs of names in the corpus cover 39 of the most popular 45 Chinese surnames and all 21 initials and 38 finals of Mandarin.
description.price *This metadata is only as a guide
  • Non-commercial Use - Research Institute: US$250.00 / RMB 2,000
  • Non-commercial Use - Company: 4 times the price for research institutes
  • Commercial Use: 8 times the price for non-commercial use
  • Additional Fee (Shipment and Handling): US$30.00 per order
description.language
  • English
description.inputDevice
  • close_talking_microphone
description.inputEnvironment
description.speakingStyle
  • read_speech
description.speechMode
  • monologue
description.samplingRate
  • 16 kHz
description.additionalData
  • analysis_parameter transcripts
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 20 sutdents, all natives of Mandarin
contributor.attribute.speaker.dialect
  • standard_dialect Mandarin Chinese
contributor.attribute.speaker.level
  • amateur students
contributor.attribute.speaker.age
  • adult students
contributor.attribute.speaker.gender
  • male
  • female
contributor.attribute.speaker.number
  • number_of_male_speakers 10
  • number_of_female_speakers 10
  • number_of_total_speakers 20
date.created
date.issued
  • 2005-00-00
date.modified
type
  • Sound
  • Text
type.discourseType
type.linguisticType
  • primary_text
type.purpose
  • developing_technologies automatic speech recognition
type.style
  • speech reading: short Chinese names (bi-syllabic names) and long Chinese names (tri-syllabic names)
type.form
  • fixed short Chinese names (bi-syllabic names) and long Chinese names (tri-syllabic names)
type.sentence
  • isolated_words bi-syllabic or tri-syllabic Chinese names
type.annotation
type.annotationSample
type.sample
format.extent
  • Sampling: 16kHz, 16-bit PCM
  • Duration: 5.4 hours
  • Speakers: 20 speakers (10 males and 10 females)
  • Reading Texts: 50 pairs of short names and 50 pairs of long names
  • Coverage of names: Covers all 21 initials and 38 finals of Mandarin and 39 of the most popular 45 Chinese surnames
  • Utterances/speaker: 400 utterances/speaker (200 names, twice each)
  • Total Utterances: 8,000 utterances
  • Size: 607 MB
format.medium
format.encoding
format.markup
format.functionality
identifier
identifier.doi
identifier.islrn
source
language
  • Mandarin Chinese
language.area
  • Asia China
relation
relation.utilization *This metadata is automatically extracted
coverage.temporal
coverage.spacial
  • Beijing, China
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