SHACHI - Language Resource Metadata Database

*Introduction*

The CALLFRIEND project supports the development of language identification technology.

*Data*

The corpus consists of 60 unscripted telephone conversations, lasting between 5-30 minutes. The corpus also includes documentation describing speaker information (sex, age, education, callee telephone number) and call information (channel quality, number of speakers).

For each conversation, both the caller and callee are native speakers of German. All calls are domestic and were placed inside the continental United States and Canada.

*Updates*

There are no updates at this time.

*Copryight*

*Introduction*

The CALLFRIEND project supports the development of language identification technology.

*Data*

The corpus consists of 60 unscripted telephone conversations, lasting between 5-30 minutes. The corpus also includes documentation describing speaker information (sex, age, education, callee telephone number) and call information (channel quality, number of speakers).

For each conversation, both the caller and callee are native speakers of Hindi. All calls are domestic and were placed inside the continental United States and Canada.

*Updates*

There are no updates at this time.

*Introduction*

The CALLFRIEND project supports the development of language identification technology.

*Data*

The corpus consists of 60 unscripted telephone conversations, lasting between 5-30 minutes. The corpus also includes documentation describing speaker information (sex, age, education, callee telephone number) and call information (channel quality, number of speakers).

For each conversation, both the caller and callee are native speakers of Japanese. All calls are domestic and were placed inside the continental United States and Canada.

*Updates*

There are no updates at this time.

*Introduction*

The CALLFRIEND project was designed to support the development of language identification technology.

*Data*

The corpus consists of 60 telephone conversations, lasting between 5-30 minutes. The corpus also includes documentation describing speaker information (sex, age, education, callee telephone number) and call information (channel quality, number of speakers).

For each conversation, both the caller and callee are native speakers of Korean. All calls are domestic and were placed inside the continental United States and Canada.

*Updates*

Transcripts for 49 of the 60 calls are now available as CALLFRIEND Korean Transcripts (LDC2003T08). An additional number of 51 calls have been published as CALLFRIEND Korean Speech Supplement (LDC2003S03).

*Introduction*

The CALLFRIEND project supports the development of language identification technology.

*Data*

The corpus consists of 60 unscripted telephone conversations, lasting between 5-30 minutes. The corpus also includes documentation describing speaker information (sex, age, education, callee telephone number) and call information (channel quality, number of speakers).

For each conversation, both the caller and callee are native speakers of Mandarin Chinese from Mainland China. All calls are domestic and were placed inside the continental United States and Canada.

Callers in the "Mainland" and "Taiwan" collections of CALLFRIEND Mandarin were identified primarily on the basis of specific attributes in their speech characteristic of geographic origin.

*Updates*

There are no updates at this time.

*Introduction*

The CALLFRIEND project supports the development of language identification technology.

*Data*

The corpus consists of 60 unscripted telephone conversations, lasting between 5-30 minutes. The corpus also includes documentation describing speaker information (sex, age, education, callee telephone number) and call information (channel quality, number of speakers).

For each conversation, both the caller and callee are native speakers of Mandarin Chinese from Taiwan. All calls are domestic and were placed inside the continental United States and Canada.

Callers in the "Mainland" and "Taiwan" collections of CALLFRIEND Mandarin were identified primarily on the basis of specific attributes in their speech characteristic of geographic origin.

*Updates*

There are no updates at this time.

*Introduction*

The CALLFRIEND project supports the development of language identification technology.

*Data*

The corpus consists of 60 unscripted telephone conversations, lasting between 5-30 minutes. The corpus also includes documentation describing speaker information (sex, age, education, callee telephone number) and call information (channel quality, number of speakers).

For each conversation, both the caller and callee are native speakers of Spanish from Caribbean countries. All calls are domestic and were placed inside the continental United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, or the Dominican Republic.

Conversations were labeled as either "Caribbean" or "non-Caribbean" based on particular attributes in the speech of the participants. Callers in the "Caribbean" and "non-Caribbean" collections of CALLFRIEND Spanish were identified primarily on the basis of consonant quality patterns, specifically, word-final "s."

*Updates*

There are no updates at this time.

*Introduction*

The CALLFRIEND project supports the development of language identification technology.

*Data*

The corpus consists of 60 unscripted telephone conversations, lasting between 5-30 minutes. The corpus also includes documentation describing speaker information (sex, age, education, callee telephone number) and call information (channel quality, number of speakers). For each conversation, both the caller and callee are native speakers of Spanish from non-Caribbean countries. All calls are domestic and were placed inside the continental United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, or the Dominican Republic.

Conversations were labeled as either "Caribbean" or "non-Caribbean" based on particular attributes in the speech of the participants. Callers in the "Caribbean" and "non-Caribbean" collections of CALLFRIEND Spanish were identified primarily on the basis of consonant quality patterns, specifically, word-final "s."

*Updates*

There are no updates at this time.

*Introduction*

The CALLFRIEND project supports the development of language identification technology.

*Data*

The corpus consists of 60 unscripted telephone conversations, lasting between 5-30 minutes. The corpus also includes documentation describing speaker information (sex, age, education, callee telephone number) and call information (channel quality, number of speakers).

For each conversation, both the caller and callee are native speakers of Tamil. All calls are domestic and were placed inside the continental United States and Canada.

*Updates*

There are no updates at this time.

*Introduction*

The CALLFRIEND project supports the development of language identification technology.

*Data*

The corpus consists of 60 unscripted telephone conversations, lasting between 5-30 minutes. The corpus also includes documentation describing speaker information (sex, age, education, callee telephone number) and call information (channel quality, number of speakers).

For each conversation, both the caller and callee are native speakers of Vietnamese. All calls are domestic and were placed inside the continental United States and Canada.

*Updates*

There are no updates at this time.