cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.35111/r0gm-tf78
title: CSR-IV HUB3

description: <p>This set of CD-ROMs contains all of the speech data provided to sites participating in the DARPA CSR November 1995 HUB3 Multi-Microphone tests. The data consists of digitized waveforms collected with eight different microphones simultaneously from 40 subjects reading 15 sentence articles drawn from various North American business news publications. The data is partitioned into development-test and evaluation-test sets. The test sets were collected with different subjects, prompts and microphones. No training data was collected for this corpus since a substantial amount of NAB acoustic training data was already available. Index files have been included that specify the exact subset of the evaluation test recordings which were used in the November 1995 tests. The software NIST used to process and score the output of the tests systems is also included.</p><br>
<p>The data is organized as follows:</p><br>
<p>CD26-3 Development-Test Data-Location 1, Adaptation and NAB recordings, Subjects:703-705, 707-70a, 70c, 70f, 70g</p><br>
<p>CD26-4 Development-Test Data-Location 2, NAB recordings, Subjects:70k, 70m, 70o, 70q-70s, 70u-70w</p><br>
<p>CD26-5 Development-Test Data-Location 2, Adaptation recordings, Subjects:70k 70m-70o, 70q-70s, 70u-70w</p><br>
<p>CD26-3 Development-Test Data-NAB recordings, Subjects:710-71j</p><br>
<p>As of September, 2007 this publication has been condensed to fit on a single DVD. The data on each CD resides in its own directory labeled with the above NIST labels.</p><br>
<h3>Additional Licensing Instructions</h3><br>
<p>This 'members-only' corpora is available to current members who can request the data at the listed reduced-license fee. Contact <a href="mailto:ldc@ldc.upenn.edu">ldc@ldc.upenn.edu</a> for information about becoming a member.</p></br>
DOI: 10.35111/at8b-ct20
title: CALLHOME Mandarin Chinese Speech

description: <h3>Introduction</h3><br>
<p>The CALLHOME Mandarin Chinese corpus of telephone speech consists of 120 unscripted telephone conversations between native speakers of Mandarin Chinese. All calls, which lasted up to 30 minutes, originated in North America and were placed to locations overseas. Most participants called family members or close friends.</p><br>
<h3>Data</h3><br>
<p>This corpus contains speech data files only, along with documentation that describes the contents and format of the speech files and the software packages needed to uncompress the speech data. The transcripts and documentation (<a href="http://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC96T16" rel="nofollow">LDC96T16</a>) are available separately, as is an associated lexicon (<a href="http://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC96L15" rel="nofollow">LDC96L15</a>).</p><br>
<h3>Samples</h3><br>
<p>Please listen to this <a href="desc/addenda/LDC96S34.sph">sample</a>.</p></br>
Portions ©  1996 Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
DOI: 10.35111/2skn-2002
title: CALLHOME Spanish Speech

description: <h3>Introduction</h3><br>
<p>The <a href="../../../Catalog/docs/LDC96S35/index.html" rel="nofollow">CALLHOME Spanish</a> corpus of telephone speech consists of 120 unscripted telephone conversations between native speakers of Spanish.</p><br>
<p>All calls, which lasted up to 30 minutes, originated in North America and were placed to international locations. Most participants called family members or close friends.</p><br>
<p>This corpus contains speech data files ONLY, along with the minimal amount of documentation needed to describe the contents and format of the speech files and the software packages needed to uncompress the speech data. The transcripts and documentation (<a href="http://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC96T17" rel="nofollow">LDC96T17</a>) are available separately, as is an associated lexicon (<a href="http://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC96L16" rel="nofollow">LDC96L16</a>).</p><br>
<h3>Samples</h3><br>
<p>Please listen to this <a href="desc/addenda/LDC96S35.sph">audio sample (SPH)</a>.</p><br>
<h3>Updates</h3><br>
<p>The "shorten" and "sphere" directories have been removed.</p><br>
<p>The sphere directory contained NIST "SPeech HEader REsources" (SPHERE): C-language source code libraries and utilities for manipulating NIST SPHERE-format waveform files.</p><br>
<p>The shorten directory contained files for Tony Robinson's "shorten" software for speech compression.</p><br>
<p>A more recent version of the SPHERE utilities is now available on the <a href="http://www.nist.gov/speech/tools/index.htm" rel="nofollow">NIST web site</a>; additional utilities for converting from SPHERE to other waveform file formats is also available at the <a href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Using/" rel="nofollow">LDC web site.</a></p><br>
<p>10.10.2003: It has been brought to our attention that 16 sphere files (both from the train and devtest directories) were corrupted; the problem becomes apparent when trying to decompress the files using the w_decode utility. As of June 12th, 2018, the corrected version of these files are included with the downloadable corpus. Any new downloads after this date will contain the full, corrected speech.</p></br>
Portions © 1996 Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
DOI: 10.35111/z7xk-z229
title: Boston University Radio Speech Corpus

description: <p>The Boston University Radio Speech Corpus was collected primarily to support research in text-to-speech synthesis, particularly generation of prosodic patterns. The corpus consists of professionally read radio news data, including speech and accompanying annotations, suitable for speech and language research. </p><p>The corpus includes speech from seven (four male, three female) FM radio news announcers associated with WBUR, a public radio station. The main radio news portion of the corpus consists of over seven hours of news stories recorded in the WBUR radio studio during broadcasts over a two year period. In addition, the announcers were also recorded in a laboratory at Boston University. In this, the lab news portion, the announcers read a total of 24 stories from the radio news portion. The announcers were first asked to read the stories in their non-radio style and then, 30 minutes later, to read the same stories in their radio style. </p><p>Each story read by an announcer was digitized in paragraph size units, which typically include several sentences. The files were digitized at a 16k Hz sample rate using a 16-bit A/D. The paragraphs were annotated with the orthographic transcription, phonetic alignments, part-of-speech tags and prosodic markers. The orthographic transcripts were generated by hand and include indication of where the speaker took a breath. The phonetic alignments and part-of-speech tags were generated automatically and hand corrected. The prosodic labels were marked by hand and are available only for a subset of the corpus. </p><p>A zipped compressed file <a href="desc/examples/bu_radio_ldc1996s36_sample.ZIP" rel="nofollow">example.zip</a> is available. Please be aware that this file is slightly larger than 1 Mb (1,278,998 bytes). An additional sample file, <a href="./desc/addenda/LDC1996S36.tgz" rel="nofollow">LDC1996.tgz</a> and <a href="./desc/addenda/LDC1996S36.wav" rel="nofollow">WAV sample</a> are also available. </p> </br>
Portions © 1996 Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
DOI: 10.35111/8mmj-t983
title: CALLHOME Japanese Speech

description: <h3>Introduction</h3><br>
<p>The CALLHOME Japanese corpus of telephone speech consists of 120 unscripted telephone conversations between native speakers of Japanese.</p><br>
<p>All calls, which lasted up to 30 minutes, originated in North America and were placed to locations overseas (typically Japan). Most participants called family members or close friends.</p><br>
<h3>Data</h3><br>
<p>This corpus contains speech data files ONLY, along with the minimal amount of documentation needed to describe the contents and format of the speech files and the software packages needed to uncompress the speech data. The transcripts and documentation (<a href="http://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC96T18" rel="nofollow">LDC96T18</a>) are available separately, as is an associated lexicon and transducer (<a href="http://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC96L17" rel="nofollow">LDC96L17</a>).</p><br>
<h3>Samples</h3><br>
<p>Please view this <a href="desc/addenda/LDC96S37.sph">sample</a>.</p><br>
<h3>Updates</h3><br>
<p>There are no updates at this time.</p></br>
DOI: 10.35111/4540-j072
title: DCIEM/HCRC

description: <h3>Introduction</h3><br>
<p>This release contains the materials used to collect all 216 spoken dialogues digital audio, orthographic transcriptions, documentation and source code for tools. The dialogues were selected to provide balanced representation at different points in a sleep deprivation experiment.</p><br>
<h3>Data</h3><br>
<p>The materials have been designed to be easily accessible to users with different equipment and a variety of needs from those who merely wish to generate hardcopies of the orthographic transcriptions to those who require computational analyses of the speech material. All the text files (transcriptions and documentation) should be readable and printable via most systems. The maps are intended for printing via POSTSCRIPT printers and the speech files are provided with human-readable standard headers, enabling them to be played by a wide range of environments for processing sampled speech.</p><br>
<p>Samples</p><br>
<p>Please view this <a href="desc/addenda/LDC96S38.sph">speech sample</a> and <a href="desc/addenda/LDC96S38.trn">transcript sample</a>.</p><br>
<h3>Updates</h3><br>
<p>There are no updates at this time.</p></br>
Portions © 1995 Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine, © 1996 Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
DOI: 10.35111/0bnw-zb85
title: RM Isolated and Spelled Word Data

description: <h3>Introduction</h3><br>
<p>This release contains previously unreleased isolated-word and spell-mode (spelled out words) speech data from the (D)ARPA Resource Management (RM1) Corpus. This data is based on a 600-word subset of the 991-word RM1 vocabulary and contains spoken and spelled words pertaining to the RM1 naval resource management task. This corpus was collected simultaneously as part of the RM1 Continuous Speech Corpus (NIST Speech Discs 2-1-2-4) and contains speech from the same sets of subjects used in RM1.</p><br>
<h3>Data</h3><br>
<p>The speech data has been segmented into separate spelled and spoken-word waveform files for each subject-word utterance. Time-aligned word and phonetic transcriptions have been generated automatically using forced recognition and are included. The time-aligned transcriptions employ the same format and phone set as the TIMIT Acoustic-Phonetic Continuous Speech Corpus (NIST Speech Disc 1-1). See the TIMIT CD-ROM companion booklet, NISTIR 4930, pp. 29-31, for a description of the phone set.</p><br>
<p>As with the continuous speech portion of RM1, this data is subsetted into speaker-independent and speaker-dependent partitions. These data sets are further partioned into training, development-test and evaluation-test subsets. See the "readme.doc" file in the top-level directory for more information about the data.</p><br>
<p>Texas Instruments recruited the subjects and collected the speech. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) segmented the waveforms, generated the time-aligned transcriptions and produced this release.</p><br>
<h3>Updates</h3><br>
<p>RM Isolated and Spelled Word Data is no longer available as catalog number LDC96S39; it has been incorporated into Resource Management RM1 2.0, and it is currently available in both Resource Management RM1 2.0 (<a href="http://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC93S3B" rel="nofollow">LDC93S3B</a>), and Resource Management Complete Set 2.0 (<a href="http://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC93S3A" rel="nofollow">LDC93S3A</a>).</p></br>
DOI: 10.35111/nqdq-ec62
title: Frontiers in Speech Processing 94

description: <h3>Introduction</h3><br>
<p>This CD reflects the cooperative efforts of 28 researchers who attended the 1994 summer workshop in speech processing hosted by the Center for Computer Aids for Industrial Productivity (CAIP) at Rutgers University and sponsored by the National Security Agency. The workshop was an outgrowth of summers at the Center for Communication Research in Princeton (CCR-P) and targeted problems concerning general-purpose speech recognition with particular emphasis on front end processing. The project was held from July 6th to August 13th and utilized extensive computational resources: both equipment native to CAIP and additional hardware acquired for the workshop.</p><br>
<h3>Updates</h3><br>
<p>There are no updates at this time.</p><br>
<h3>Additional Licensing Instructions</h3><br>
<p>This 'members-only' corpora is available to current members who can request the data at the listed reduced-license fee. Contact <a href="mailto:ldc@ldc.upenn.edu">ldc@ldc.upenn.edu</a> for information about becoming a member.</p></br>
DOI: 10.35111/z05a-tb91
title: VAHA (POLYPHONE II)

description: <h3>Introduction</h3> <p>Voice Across Hispanic America (VAHA) is a corpus of Spanish telephone speech, recorded digitally from 915 native speakers of Spanish in various parts of the United States. With nearly 39,000 recorded and transcribed utterances, VAHA will be useful for a variety of research studies, but it is intended primarily for speech technology research and development in telecommunications applications. It is patterned after Macrophone (1), an American English corpus (<a href="http://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC94S21" rel="nofollow">LDC94S21</a>) which is widely used for this purpose. </p><h3>Data</h3> <p>This corpus was collected by Texas Instruments in Dallas, TX for the Linguistic Data Consortium. </p><h3>Updates</h3> <p>There are no updates at this time.</p>  </br>
Portions © 1996 Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
DOI: 10.35111/d37s-c536
title: CALLFRIEND American English-Non-Southern Dialect

description: <h3>Introduction</h3><br>
<p>The <a href="../../../Catalog/docs/LDC96S46/index.html" rel="nofollow">CALLFRIEND</a> project supports the development of language identification technology.</p><br>
<h3>Data</h3><br>
<p>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).</p><br>
<p>For each conversation, both the caller and callee are native speakers of non-Southern dialects of American English. All calls are domestic and were placed inside the continental United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, or the Dominican Republic.</p><br>
<p>Callers in the "non-Southern" (or "general") collection of CALLFRIEND American English appear to come from a wide geographic range, based on their own reports of where they were raised (some identified their origins as being in the southeastern U.S.). Regardless of their geographic or ethnic backgrounds, the feature they share is the clear absence of a vowel quality pattern that would distinguish them as speakers of a "Southern" dialect.</p><br>
<p>Some information was inadvertently left out of the speaker information table and the call information table. Copies of these files are available here at <a href="desc/addenda/LDC1996S46_C.txt" rel="nofollow">CALLINFO.TBL</a> and <a href="desc/addenda/LDC1996S46_S.txt" rel="nofollow">SPKRINFO.TBL</a>.</p><br>
<h3>Samples</h3><br>
<p>Please listen to this <a href="desc/addenda/LDC96S46.sph">audio sample</a>.</p><br>
<h3>Updates</h3><br>
<p>There are no updates at this time.</p></br>
DOI: 10.35111/a8vf-6k58
title: CALLFRIEND American English-Southern Dialect

description: <h3>Introduction</h3><br>
<p>CALLFRIEND American English-Southern Dialect was developed by the Linguistic Data Consortium as part of the CALLFRIEND project, which supported the development of language identification technology.</p><br>
<h3>Data</h3><br>
<p>CALLFRIEND American English-Southern Dialect 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).</p><br>
<p>For each conversation, both the caller and callee were native speakers of Southern American English. All calls were placed inside the continental United States, Canada, Puerto Rico or the Dominican Republic.</p><br>
<p>Callers in the "Southern" collection of CALLFRIEND American English were identified primarily on the basis of vowel quality patterns that are common among native speakers raised in the southeastern United States (from Texas eastward to the Atlantic coast and from Virginia and Kentucky southward to the Gulf of Mexico). </p><br>
<h3>Samples</h3><br>
<p>Please listen to this <a href="desc/addenda/LDC96S47.sph">audio sample</a>.</p><br>
<h3>Updates</h3><br>
<p>There are no updates at this time.</p></br>
DOI: 10.35111/91pj-x181
title: CALLFRIEND Canadian French

description: <h3>Introduction</h3> <p>The <a href="/Catalog/docs/LDC96S48/index.html" rel="nofollow">CALLFRIEND</a> project supports the development of language identification technology. </p><h3>Data</h3> <p>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). </p><p>For each conversation, both the caller and callee are native Canadian speakers of French. All calls are domestic and were placed inside the continental United States and Canada. </p><h3>Updates</h3> There are no updates at this time. </br>
DOI: 10.35111/nnm5-kp69
title: CALLFRIEND Egyptian Arabic

description: <h3>Introduction</h3><br>
<p>CALLFRIEND Egyptian Arabic was developed by the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) and consists of approximately 25 hours of unscripted telephone conversations between native speakers of Egyptian Arabic.</p><br>
<p>The CALLFRIEND series is a collection of telephone conversations in several languages conducted by LDC in support of language identification technology development. Languages covered in the collection include American English, Canadian French, Egyptian Arabic, Farsi, German, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, Tamil and Vietnamese.</p><br>
<p>An updated edition of this corpus is available as CALLFRIEND Egyptian Arabic Second Edition (<a href="../../../LDC2019S04">LDC2019S04</a>). The second edition updates the audio files to wav format, simplifies the directory structure and adds documentation and metadata.</p><br>
<h3>Data</h3><br>
<p>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).</p><br>
<p>For each conversation, both the caller and callee are native speakers of the Egyptian dialect of Arabic. All calls were placed inside the continental United States and Canada.</p><br>
<h3>Samples</h3><br>
<p>Please view this <a href="desc/addenda/LDC96S49.sph">speech sample</a>.</p><br>
<h3>Updates</h3><br>
<p>There are no updates at this time.</p></br>
Portions © 1996 Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
DOI: 10.35111/pgs3-9h85
title: CALLFRIEND Farsi

description: <h3>Introduction</h3> <p>The <a href="/Catalog/docs/LDC96S50/index.html" rel="nofollow">CALLFRIEND</a> project supports the development of language identification technology. </p><h3>Data</h3> <p>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). </p><p>For each conversation, both the caller and callee are native speakers of Farsi. All calls are domestic and were placed inside the continental United States and Canada. </p><h3>Updates</h3><p>There are no updates at this time.</p> </br>
Portions © 1995-1996 Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
DOI: 10.35111/99vs-vv60
title: CALLFRIEND German

description: <h3>Introduction</h3><br>
<p>The <a href="../../../Catalog/docs/LDC96S51/index.html" rel="nofollow">CALLFRIEND</a> project supports the development of language identification technology.</p><br>
<h3>Data</h3><br>
<p>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).</p><br>
<p>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.</p><br>
<h3>Samples</h3><br>
<p>Please view this <a href="desc/addenda/LDC96S51.sph">audio sample</a>.</p><br>
<h3>Updates</h3><br>
<p>There are no updates at this time.</p><br>
<h3>Copryight</h3></br>
DOI: 10.35111/wb3y-tt71
title: CALLFRIEND Hindi

description: <h3>Introduction</h3> <p>The <a href="/Catalog/docs/LDC96S52/index.html" rel="nofollow">CALLFRIEND</a> project supports the development of language identification technology. </p><h3>Data</h3> <p>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). </p><p>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. </p><h3>Updates</h3> There are no updates at this time. </br>
DOI: 10.35111/wv05-we23
title: CALLFRIEND Japanese

description: <h3>Introduction</h3><br>
<p>The <a href="../../../Catalog/docs/LDC96S53/index.html" rel="nofollow">CALLFRIEND</a> project supports the development of language identification technology.</p><br>
<h3>Data</h3><br>
<p>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).</p><br>
<p>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.</p><br>
<h3>Samples</h3><br>
<p>Please view this <a href="desc/addenda/LDC96S53.sph">sample</a>.</p><br>
<h3>Updates</h3><br>
<p>There are no updates at this time.</p></br>
DOI: 10.35111/71ph-4112
title: CALLFRIEND Korean

description: <h3>Introduction</h3><br>
<p>The CALLFRIEND project was designed to support the development of language identification technology.</p><br>
<h3>Data</h3><br>
<p>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).</p><br>
<p>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.</p><br>
<h3>Samples</h3><br>
<p>Please listen to this <a href="desc/addenda/LDC96S54.sph">audio sample</a>.</p><br>
<h3>Updates</h3><br>
<p>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).</p></br>
Portions © 1996 Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania