TC-STAR female baseline voice: Laura

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title
  • TC-STAR female baseline voice: Laura
title.abbreviation
title.alternative
creator
subject
  • speech database
subject.linguisticField
  • phonetics
  • phonology
subject.monoMultilingual
  • monolingual
subject.resourceSubject
  • corpus
description
  • Desktop/Microphone
    Laura was created within the scope of the TC-STAR project (IST- FP6-506738) funded by the European Commission.

    Laura contains the recordings of one female English (British) speaker recorded in a noise-reduced room through a headset microphone. It consists of the recordings and annotations of read text material of approximately 10 hours of speech for baseline applications (Text-to-Speech systems). This database is distributed on 9 DVDs. The database complies with the common specifications created in the TC-STAR project.

    The annotation of the database includes manual orthographic transcriptions, the automatic segmentation into phonemes and automatic generation of pitch marks. A certain percentage of phonetic segments and pitch marks has been manually checked. A pronunciation lexicon in SAMPA with POS, lemma and phonetic transcription of all the words prompted and spoken is also provided.

    Speech samples are stored as sequences of 24-bit 96 kHz with the least significant byte first (“lohi” or Intel format) as (signed) integers. Each prompted utterance is stored in a separate file. Each signal file is accompanied by an ASCII SAM label file which contains the relevant descriptive information.

    The TC-STAR male baseline voice: Ian is also available via ELRA under reference ELRA-S0303.
description.price *This metadata is only as a guide
description.language
  • English
description.inputDevice
  • close_talking_microphone
description.inputEnvironment
  • noise-reduced room
description.speakingStyle
  • read_speech
description.speechMode
  • monologue
description.samplingRate
  • 96 kHz
description.additionalData
  • analysis_parameter ASCII SAM label file which contains the relevant descriptive information
  • analysis_parameter manual orthographic transcriptions
  • analysis_parameter automatic segmentation into phonemes and automatic generation of pitch marks
  • analysis_parameter A pronunciation lexicon in SAMPA with POS, lemma and phonetic transcription of all the words prompted and spoken
publisher
contributor
  • sponsor the European Commission
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
  • standard_dialect
contributor.attribute.speaker.level
contributor.attribute.speaker.age
  • adult
contributor.attribute.speaker.gender
  • female
contributor.attribute.speaker.number
  • number_of_male_speakers
  • number_of_female_speakers 1
  • number_of_total_speakers 1
date.created
  • 2015-02-10 0000-00-00
date.issued
  • 2009-09-21
date.modified
  • 2009-09-21
type
  • Sound
  • Text
type.discourseType
type.linguisticType
  • primary_text
type.purpose
type.style
  • speech
type.form
  • fixed
type.sentence
type.annotation
  • annotated
type.annotationSample
type.sample
format.extent
  • DURATION : 10 hours of speech
  • DISTRIBUTION : 9 DVDs
format.medium
  • DVD
format.encoding
format.markup
format.functionality
identifier
identifier.doi
identifier.islrn
  • 232-857-115-137-3
source
language
  • English
language.area
  • Europe
relation
relation.utilization *This metadata is automatically extracted
coverage.temporal
coverage.spacial
rights
  • Rights available for: Research Use, Commercial Use