All software needed to use the corpus is provided on the CDs. Most items are read, some are spontaneously spoken. The recordings come with extensive and standardised documentation. Moreover, age and regional background of the speakers are provided. This speech database gathers Spanish data as spoken in Chile.
All participants are native speakers.
The corpus consists of read speech, including digits and application words for teleservices, recorded through an ISDN card. The whole database consists of 6.45 hours of speech, with 24 utterances per speaker. The data is provided with orthographic transliteration for all 6,000 utterances including 4 categories of non-speech acoustic events. The speech files are stored as sequences of 8 bits 8 kHz A-law samples. Data are stored in a SAM file format.