French Speecon database

registration: 2007/08/03 23:31:54, last modified: 2016/05/14 08:21:13
title
  • French Speecon database
title.abbreviation
title.alternative
creator
  • developer the Speecon project
subject
  • speech database
subject.linguisticField
subject.monoMultilingual
  • monolingual
subject.resourceSubject
  • corpus
description
  • Desktop/Microphone
    The French Speecon database is divided into 2 sets:

    1. The first set comprises the recordings of 550 adult French speakers (275 males, 275 females), recorded over 4 microphone channels in 4 recording environments (office, entertainment, car, public place).
    2. The second set comprises the recordings of 50 child French speakers (20 boys, 30 girls), recorded over 4 microphone channels in 1 recording environment (children room).

    This database is partitioned into 23 DVDs (first set) and 3 DVDs (second set).
    The speech databases made within the Speecon project were validated by SPEX, the Netherlands, to assess their compliance with the Speecon format and content specifications. Each of the four speech channels is recorded at 16 kHz, 16 bit, uncompressed unsigned integers in Intel format (lo-hi byte order). To each signal file corresponds an ASCII SAM label file which contains the relevant descriptive information.

    Each speaker uttered the following items:

    * Calibration data:
    o 6 noise recordings
    o The “silence word” recording
    * Free spontaneous items (adults only):
    o 5 minutes (session time) of free spontaneous, rich context items (story telling) (an open number of spontaneous topics out of a set of 30 topics)
    * 17 Elicited spontaneous items (adults only):
    o 3 dates, 2 times, 3 proper names, 2 city name, 1 letter sequence, 2 answers to questions, 3 telephone numbers, 1 language
    * Read speech:
    o 30 phonetically rich sentences uttered by adults and 60 uttered by children
    o 5 phonetically rich words (adults only)
    o 4 isolated digits
    o 1 isolated digit sequence
    o 4 connected digit sequences
    o 1 telephone number
    o 3 natural numbers
    o 1 money amount
    o 2 time phrases (T1 : analogue, T2 : digital)
    o 3 dates (D1 : analogue, D2 : relative and general date, D3 : digital)
    o 3 letter sequences
    o 1 proper name
    o 2 city or street names
    o 2 questions
    o 2 special keyboard characters
    o 1 Web address
    o 1 email address
    o 208 application specific words and phrases per session (adults)
    o 73 toy commands and 46 general commands (children)

    The following age distribution has been obtained:

    * Adults: 245 speakers are between 15 and 30, 210 speakers are between 31 and 45, 95 speakers are between 46 and 60.
    * Children: 17 speakers are between 8 and 10, 33 speakers are between 11 and 14.

    A pronunciation lexicon with a phonemic transcription in SAMPA is also included.
description.price *This metadata is only as a guide
description.language
  • French
description.inputDevice
  • microphone
description.inputEnvironment
  • office_room
  • in_car
  • noisy_condition entertainment, public places, children rooms
description.speakingStyle
  • read_speech
  • spontaneous_speech
description.speechMode
  • monologue
  • dialogue questions and answers
description.samplingRate
  • 16 kHz
description.additionalData
  • analysis_parameter ASCII SAM label files containing the relevant descriptive information
  • analysis_parameter 4 different recording environments (office, entertainment, car, public place)
  • analysis_parameter a pronunciation lexicon with a phonemic transcription in SAMPA
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
contributor.attribute.speaker.dialect
  • standard_dialect
contributor.attribute.speaker.level
  • amateur
contributor.attribute.speaker.age
  • adult 245 speakers are between 15 and 30, 210 speakers are between 31 and 45, 95 speakers are between 46 and 60
  • child 17 speakers are between 8 and 10, 33 speakers are between 11 and 14
contributor.attribute.speaker.gender
  • male 275 males and 20 boys
  • female 275 females and 30 girls
contributor.attribute.speaker.number
  • number_of_male_speakers 295
  • number_of_female_speakers 305
  • number_of_total_speakers 600
date.created
date.issued
  • 2004-05-12
date.modified
  • 2007-02-22
type
  • Sound
  • Text
type.discourseType
type.linguisticType
  • primary_text
type.purpose
  • developing_technologies
type.style
  • speech reading (words and sentences)
  • speech spontaneous speeches and words
type.form
  • fixed
type.sentence
  • short
  • long
  • isolated_words
type.annotation
  • annotated
type.annotationSample
type.sample
format.extent
  • at 16 kHz, 16 bit
format.medium
  • DVD
format.encoding
  • ASCII SAM
format.markup
format.functionality
identifier
identifier.doi
identifier.islrn
  • 193-548-546-472-4
source
  • Microphone
language
  • French
language.area
  • Europe
relation
relation.utilization *This metadata is automatically extracted
coverage.temporal
coverage.spacial
rights
  • Rights available for: Research Use, Commercial Use