SHACHI - Language Resource Metadata Database

Desktop/Microphone
Verbmobil is a long-term project of the German Federal Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Technology (BMBF, Projekträger DLR). Its aim is to give Germany an international top position in language technology and its economical application in the next millenium by cooperation and concentration of as many as possible specialists from industry and science. The long-sighted aim is the development of a mobile translation system for the translation of spontaneous speech in face-to-face situations.The following resources are spontaneous speech databases recorded in a dialogue task (appointment scheduling) .
VERBMOBIL II - VM CD21.1 - VM21.1 (new edition) consists of 1 CD-ROM with 38 spontaneous dialogues (38 close mic, 2 room mic, 22 phone line (GSM)), 2331 turns, transliteration (VM II format), NIST headers, partitur files (files describing the different parts which constitute the corpus - word order, phrase order, etc. ) in German.

Desktop/Microphone
Verbmobil is a long-term project of the German Federal Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Technology (BMBF, Projekträger DLR). Its aim is to give Germany an international top position in language technology and its economical application in the next millenium by cooperation and concentration of as many as possible specialists from industry and science. The long-sighted aim is the development of a mobile translation system for the translation of spontaneous speech in face-to-face situations.The following resources are spontaneous speech databases recorded in a dialogue task (appointment scheduling) .
VERBMOBIL II - VM Lexicon database - VMLEX (BAS edition) - Verbmobil lexicon database of the University of Bielefeld.

Telephone
The Welsh SpeechDat(II) FDB-2000 database contains the recordings of 2,000 Welsh speakers (918 male speakers et 1,082 speakers) recorded over the British fixed telephone network. The FDB-2000 database is partitioned into 10 CDs, which comprise 200 speakers sessions each.

Speech samples are stored as sequences of 8-bit 8 kHz A-law. 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.

This database was validated by SPEX (the Netherlands) to assess its compliance with the SpeechDat format and content specifications.

Each speaker uttered the following items:

* 6 application words
* 1 sequence of 10 isolated digits
* 4 connected digits (1 sheet number –5 digits, 1 telephone number –9/11 digits, 1 credit card number –14/16 digits, 1 PIN code -6 digits)
* 3 dates (1 spontaneous e.g. birthday, 1 word style prompted date, 1 relative and general date expression)
* 1 word spotting phrase using an embedded application word
* 1 isolated digit
* 3 spelled word (1 spontaneous e.g. own forename, 1 city name, 1 real/artificial for coverage)
* 1 currency money amount
* 1 natural number
* 5 directory assistance names (1 spontaneous e.g. own forename, 1 city of birth/growing up, 1 most frequent city name out of a set of 500, 1 common forename and surname)
* 2 yes/no questions (1 predominantly "yes" question, 1 predominantly "no" question)
* 9 phonetically rich sentences
* 2 time phrases (1 spontaneous time of day, 1 word style time phrase)
* 4 phonetically rich words

The following age distribution has been obtained: 509 speakers are between 16 and 30, 645 speakers are between 31 and 45, 565 speakers are between 46 and 60 and 281 speakers are over 60.

A pronunciation lexicon with a phonemic transcription in SAMPA is also included.

Desktop/Microphone
Verbmobil is a long-term project of the German Federal Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Technology (BMBF, Projekträger DLR). Its aim is to give Germany an international top position in language technology and its economical application in the next millenium by cooperation and concentration of as many as possible specialists from industry and science. The long-sighted aim is the development of a mobile translation system for the translation of spontaneous speech in face-to-face situations.The following resources are spontaneous speech databases recorded in a dialogue task (appointment scheduling) .
VERBMOBIL II - VM CD 45.1 - VM45.1 (BAS edition) consists of 1 CD-ROM with 21 spontaneous dialogues (21 close mic, 0 room mic, 0 phone line (fixed network, GSM) recordings), 1293 turns, transliteration (Verbmobil II Format) in Japanese.

Desktop/Microphone
Verbmobil is a long-term project of the German Federal Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Technology (BMBF, Projekträger DLR). Its aim is to give Germany an international top position in language technology and its economical application in the next millenium by cooperation and concentration of as many as possible specialists from industry and science. The long-sighted aim is the development of a mobile translation system for the translation of spontaneous speech in face-to-face situations.The following resources are spontaneous speech databases recorded in a dialogue task (appointment scheduling) .
VERBMOBIL II - VM Bonus CD - VMBONUS (BAS edition) consists of 1 CD-ROM with additional data and documentation that is not included in the regular VM volumes.

Desktop/Microphone
Verbmobil is a long-term project of the German Federal Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Technology (BMBF, Projekträger DLR). Its aim is to give Germany an international top position in language technology and its economical application in the next millenium by cooperation and concentration of as many as possible specialists from industry and science. The long-sighted aim is the development of a mobile translation system for the translation of spontaneous speech in face-to-face situations.The following resources are spontaneous speech databases recorded in a dialogue task (appointment scheduling) .
VERBMOBIL II - VM CD 18.1 - VM18.1 (new edition) consists of 1 CD-ROM with 200 dialogues, 200 appointment schedulings - 2345 turns in Japanese.

Desktop/Microphone
Verbmobil is a long-term project of the German Federal Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Technology (BMBF, Projekträger DLR). Its aim is to give Germany an international top position in language technology and its economical application in the next millenium by cooperation and concentration of as many as possible specialists from industry and science. The long-sighted aim is the development of a mobile translation system for the translation of spontaneous speech in face-to-face situations.The following resources are spontaneous speech databases recorded in a dialogue task (appointment scheduling) .
VERBMOBIL II - VM CD 16.1 - VM16.1 (new edition) consists of 1 CD-ROM with 200 dialogues, 200 appointment schedulings - 3311 turns in Japanese.

Desktop/Microphone
Verbmobil is a long-term project of the German Federal Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Technology (BMBF, Projekträger DLR). Its aim is to give Germany an international top position in language technology and its economical application in the next millenium by cooperation and concentration of as many as possible specialists from industry and science. The long-sighted aim is the development of a mobile translation system for the translation of spontaneous speech in face-to-face situations.The following resources are spontaneous speech databases recorded in a dialogue task (appointment scheduling) .
VERBMOBIL II - VM CD 62.1 - VM62.1 (BAS edition) consists of 1 CD-ROM with 21 spontaneous dialogues (21 close mic, 0 room mic, 0 phone line (GSM) recordings) - 981 turns, transliteration (VM II Format) in Japanese.

Desktop/Microphone
Verbmobil is a long-term project of the German Federal Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Technology (BMBF, Projekträger DLR). Its aim is to give Germany an international top position in language technology and its economical application in the next millenium by cooperation and concentration of as many as possible specialists from industry and science. The long-sighted aim is the development of a mobile translation system for the translation of spontaneous speech in face-to-face situations.The following resources are spontaneous speech databases recorded in a dialogue task (appointment scheduling) .
VERBMOBIL II - VM CD 63.0 - VM63.0 (original edition) consists of 1 CD-ROM with 14 WOZ dialogues designed to evoke emotions (mainnly anger) - transliteration, emotion labeling in German.

Desktop/Microphone
Verbmobil is a long-term project of the German Federal Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Technology (BMBF, Projekträger DLR). Its aim is to give Germany an international top position in language technology and its economical application in the next millenium by cooperation and concentration of as many as possible specialists from industry and science. The long-sighted aim is the development of a mobile translation system for the translation of spontaneous speech in face-to-face situations.The following resources are spontaneous speech databases recorded in a dialogue task (appointment scheduling) .
VERBMOBIL II - VM CD 17.1 - VM17.1 (new edition) consists of 1 CD-ROM with 200 dialogues, 200 appointment schedulings - 2741 turns in Japanese.