OLAC Record oai:catalogue.elra.info:ELRA-S0175

Metadata
Title:		Mandarin Chinese Speecon database
Access Rights:		Rights available for: nonCommercialUse, commercialUse
Date Available (W3CDTF):		2005-06-14
Date Issued (W3CDTF):		2005-06-14
Date Modified (W3CDTF):		2007-02-22
Description:		The Mandarin Chinese Speecon database is divided into 2 sets: 1) The first set comprises the recordings of 550 adult Chinese speakers (276 males, 274 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 Chinese speakers (26 boys, 24 girls), recorded over 4 microphone channels in 1 recording environment (children room). This database is partitioned into 26 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: 6 noise recordingsThe “silence word” recordingFree spontaneous items (adults only):2 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):3 dates, 2 times, 3 proper names, 2 city name, 1 letter sequence, 2 answers to questions, 3 telephone numbers, 1 language Read speech:30 phonetically rich sentences uttered by adults and 60 uttered by children5 phonetically rich words (adults only)4 isolated digits1 isolated digit sequence4 connected digit sequences1 telephone number3 natural numbers1 money amount2 time phrases (T1 : analogue, T2 : digital)3 dates (D1 : analogue, D2 : relative and general date, D3 : digital)3 letter sequences1 proper name2 city or street names2 questions2 special keyboard characters 1 Web address1 email address208 application specific words and phrases per session (adults)74 toy commands and 48 general commands (children)The following age distribution has been obtained: Adults: 224 speakers are between 15 and 30, 220 speakers are between 31 and 45, 106 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.
Identifier:		ELRA-S0175
		ISLRN: 420-738-064-329-0
Identifier (URI):		https://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-S0175/
Language:		Chinese
Language (ISO639):		zho
Medium:		Not specified
Publisher:		ELRA (European Language Resources Association)
Type (DCMI):		Sound
Type (OLAC):		primary_text
OLAC Info
Archive:		ELRA Catalogue of Language Resources
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OaiIdentifier:		oai:catalogue.elra.info:ELRA-S0175
DateStamp:		2005-06-14
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Citation:		n.a. 2005. ELRA (European Language Resources Association).
Terms:		dcmi_Sound iso639_zho olac_primary_text