CMU_ARCTIC speech synthesis databases

registration: 2017/06/09 14:39:52, last modified: 2017/06/09 15:04:49
title
  • CMU_ARCTIC speech synthesis databases
title.abbreviation
title.alternative
creator
  • researcher Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, the US
subject
  • speech synthesis database
subject.linguisticField
  • applied_linguistics
  • phonetics
  • phonology
subject.monoMultilingual
  • monolingual
subject.resourceSubject
  • corpus
description
  • The CMU_ARCTIC databases were constructed at the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University as phonetically balanced, US English single speaker databases designed for unit selection speech synthesis research.

    The databases consist of around 1150 utterances carefully selected from out-of-copyright texts from Project Gutenberg. The databses include US English male (bdl) and female (slt) speakers (both experinced voice talent) as well as other accented speakers.

    The distributions include 16KHz waveform and simultaneous EGG signals. Full phoentically labelling was perfromed by the CMU Sphinx using the FestVox based labelling scripts. Complete runnable Festival Voices are included with the database distributions, as examples though better voices can be made by improving labelling etc.
description.price *This metadata is only as a guide
description.language
  • English
description.inputDevice
  • desktop_microphone Sennheiser MD431 near field condenser microphone
description.inputEnvironment
  • sound_proof_room A double steel walled chamber with a six inch air gap between the inner and outer chambers, with foam baffling mounted on the inside walls to damp out resonances
description.speakingStyle
  • read_speech
description.speechMode
  • monologue
description.samplingRate
  • 16 kHz
description.additionalData
  • simultaneous EGG signals
publisher
  • Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
contributor
  • sponsor the U.S. National Science Foundation (Grant No. 0219687, "ITR/CIS Evaluation and Personalization of Synthetic Voices")
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contributor.attribute.author.dialect
contributor.attribute.author.level
contributor.attribute.author.age
contributor.attribute.author.gender
contributor.attribute.speaker.motherTongue
contributor.attribute.speaker.dialect
  • dialect Canadian, Scottish, and Indian
  • standard_dialect American English
contributor.attribute.speaker.level
  • amateur
  • professional experinced voice talent
contributor.attribute.speaker.age
contributor.attribute.speaker.gender
  • male
  • female
contributor.attribute.speaker.number
  • number_of_male_speakers 4
  • number_of_female_speakers 1
  • number_of_total_speakers 5
date.created
date.issued
date.modified
type
  • Sound
type.discourseType
type.linguisticType
  • primary_text
type.purpose
  • developing_technologies speechs synthesis
type.style
  • speech
type.form
  • unfixed
type.sentence
  • long
  • short
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type.annotationSample
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format.extent
  • Number of utterances: around 1150
format.medium
  • download
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source
language
  • English American English
language.area
  • America
  • Asia
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relation.utilization *This metadata is automatically extracted
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