Multi-Language Conversational Telephone Speech 2011 -- Turkish

registration: 2017/05/19 08:09:18, last modified: 2017/05/19 08:26:39
title
  • Multi-Language Conversational Telephone Speech 2011 -- Turkish
title.abbreviation
title.alternative
creator
  • researcher Karen Jones
  • researcher David Graff
  • researcher Kevin Walker
  • researcher Stephanie Strassel
subject
  • speech corpus
subject.linguisticField
  • applied_linguistics
  • phonetics
  • phonology
subject.monoMultilingual
  • monolingual
subject.resourceSubject
  • corpus
description
  • *Introduction*

    Multi-Language Conversational Telephone Speech 2011 -- Turkish was developed by the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) and is comprised of approximately 18 hours of telephone speech in Turkish.

    The data were collected primarily to support research and technology evaluation in automatic language identification, and portions of these telephone calls were used in the NIST 2011 Language Recognition Evaluation (LRE). LRE 2011 focused on language pair discrimination for 24 languages/dialects, some of which could be considered mutually intelligible or closely related.

    LDC has released the following as part of the Multi-Language Conversation Telephone Speech 2011 series:

    Slavic Group (LDC2016S11)
    Turkish (LDC2017S09)

    *Data*

    Participants were recruited by native speakers who contacted acquaintances in their social network. Those native speakers made one call, up to 15 minutes, to each acquaintance. The data was collected using LDC's telephone collection infrastructure, comprised of three computer telephony systems. Human auditors labeled calls for callee gender, dialect type and noise. Demographic information about the participants was not collected.

    All audio data are presented in FLAC-compressed MS-WAV (RIFF) file format (*.flac); when uncompressed, each file is 2 channels, recorded at 8000 samples/second with samples stored as 16-bit signed integers, representing a lossless conversion from the original mu-law sample data as captured digitally from the public telephone network. The following table summarizes the total number of calls, total number of hours of recorded audio, and the total size of compressed data:
    group lng #calls #hours #MB
    turkish tur 87 18.6 975
description.price *This metadata is only as a guide
description.language
  • English
description.inputDevice
  • fixed_line_telephone
description.inputEnvironment
description.speakingStyle
  • spontaneous_speech
description.speechMode
  • dialogue
description.samplingRate
  • 8 kHz
description.additionalData
publisher
contributor
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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
contributor.attribute.speaker.level
contributor.attribute.speaker.age
contributor.attribute.speaker.gender
  • male
  • female
contributor.attribute.speaker.number
date.created
date.issued
  • 2017-5-15
date.modified
type
  • Sound
type.discourseType
  • interactive_discourse
type.linguisticType
  • primary_text
type.purpose
  • developing_technologies To support research and technology evaluation in automatic language identification.
type.style
  • speech telephone conversation
type.form
  • unfixed
type.sentence
  • long
  • short
type.annotation
type.annotationSample
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format.extent
  • Total number of calls: 87
  • Total number of hours of recorded audio: 18.6
  • Total size of compressed data: 975 MB
format.medium
  • Web Download
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format.functionality
identifier
identifier.doi
identifier.islrn
  • 466-022-433-410-8
source
language
  • Turkish
language.area
  • Asia
relation
relation.utilization *This metadata is automatically extracted
coverage.temporal
coverage.spacial
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