The FAME! Speech Corpus

registration: 2017/04/11 08:52:40, last modified: 2017/05/25 08:00:37
title
  • The FAME! Speech Corpus
title.abbreviation
title.alternative
creator
subject
  • speech corpus
subject.linguisticField
  • phonetics
  • phonology
subject.monoMultilingual
  • monolingual
subject.resourceSubject
  • corpus
description
  • The components of the Frisian data collection are speech and language resources gathered for building a large vocabulary ASR system for the Frisian language.

    Firstly, a new broadcast database is created by collecting recordings from the archives of the regional broadcaster Omrop Fryslân, and annotating them with various information such as the language switches and speaker details.

    The second component of this collection is a language model created on a text corpus with diverse vocabulary.

    Thirdly, a Frisian phonetic dictionary with the mappings between the Frisian words and phones is built to make the ASR viable for this under-resourced language.

    Finally, an ASR recipe is provided which uses all previous resources to perform recognition and present the recognition accuracies.

    The Corpus consists of 203 audio segments of approximately 5 minutes long extracted from various radio programs covering a time span of almost 50 years (1966-2015), adding a longitudinal dimension to the database.
    The content of the recordings are very diverse including radio programs about culture, history, literature, sports, nature, agriculture, politics, society and languages.

    The total duration of the manually annotated radio broadcasts sums up to 18 hours, 33 minutes and 57 seconds. The stereo audio data has a sampling frequency of 48 kHz and 16-bit resolution per sample. The available meta-information helped the annotators to identify these speakers and mark them either using their names or the same label (if the name is not known). There are 309 identified speakers in the FAME! Speech Corpus, 21 of whom appear at least 3 times in the database. These speakers are mostly program presenters and celebrities appearing multiple times in different recordings over years. There are 233 unidentified speakers due to lack of meta-information. The total number of word- and sentence-level code-switching cases in the FAME! Speech Corpus is equal to 3837.

    Music portions have been replaced by noise, except where these overlap with speech.
description.price *This metadata is only as a guide
  • Members Prices:
  • Academic - Commercial 1500.00 EUR
  • Academic - Research Free
  • Commercial - Commercial 1500.00 EUR
  • Commercial - Research 1500.00 EUR
  • Non Member Prices:
  • Academic - Commercial 3500.00 EUR
  • Academic - Research Free
  • Commercial - Commercial 3500.00 EUR
  • Commercial - Research 3500.00 EUR
description.language
description.inputDevice
  • broadcast
description.inputEnvironment
description.speakingStyle
description.speechMode
description.samplingRate
  • 48 kHz
description.additionalData
  • analysis_parameter a Frisian phonetic dictionary with the mappings between the Frisian words and phones
  • analysis_parameter information including language switches and speaker details
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
contributor.attribute.speaker.dialect
contributor.attribute.speaker.level
  • amateur
  • professional
contributor.attribute.speaker.age
contributor.attribute.speaker.gender
  • female
  • male
contributor.attribute.speaker.number
  • number_of_total_speakers 542
date.created
date.issued
  • 2017-04-07
date.modified
type
  • Sound
  • Text
type.discourseType
type.linguisticType
  • primary_text
type.purpose
  • developing_technologies for the development of speech recognition technology
type.style
  • speech
type.form
  • unfixed
type.sentence
  • long
  • short
type.annotation
  • annotated
type.annotationSample
type.sample
format.extent
  • Total number of audio segments: 203 audio segments of approximately 5 minutes long
  • Total duration of recording: 18 hours, 33 minutes and 57 seconds
  • Total number of word- and sentence-level code-switching cases: 3837
format.medium
  • Downloadable
format.encoding
format.markup
format.functionality
identifier
identifier.doi
identifier.islrn
  • 340-994-352-616-4
source
  • Radio programs
language
  • Western Frisian
language.area
  • Europe
relation
relation.utilization *This metadata is automatically extracted
coverage.temporal
  • 1966 - 2015
coverage.spacial
rights