OLAC Record oai:catalogue.elra.info:ELRA-S0215

Metadata
Title:		UK English Speecon database
Access Rights:		Rights available for: nonCommercialUse, commercialUse
Date Available (W3CDTF):		2006-06-07
Date Issued (W3CDTF):		2006-06-07
Date Modified (W3CDTF):		2007-02-22
Description:		The UK English Speecon database is divided into 2 sets: 1) The first set comprises the recordings of 606 adult UK English speakers (325 males, 281 females), recorded over 4 microphone channels in 4 recording environments (office, entertainment, car, public place), and consisting of about 195 hours of audio data. 2) The second set comprises the recordings of 51 child UK English speakers (14 boys, 37 girls), recorded over 4 microphone channels in 1 recording environment (children room), and consisting of about 9 hours of audio data. This database is partitioned into 31 DVDs (first set) and 4 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 (over 290 items for adults and over 210 items for children):Calibration data: 6 noise recordings The “silence word” recordingFree spontaneous items (adults only):5 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 names, 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, 14 phone commands and 34 general commands (children)The following age distribution has been obtained: Adults: 321 speakers are between 16 and 30, 182 speakers are between 31 and 45, 103 speakers are over 46.Children: All 51 speakers are between 11 and 14.A pronunciation lexicon with a phonemic transcription in SAMPA is also included.
Identifier:		ELRA-S0215
		ISLRN: 773-101-261-598-6
Identifier (URI):		https://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-S0215/
Language:		English
Language (ISO639):		eng
Medium:		Not specified
Publisher:		ELRA (European Language Resources Association)
Type (DCMI):		Sound
Type (OLAC):		primary_text
OLAC Info
Archive:		ELRA Catalogue of Language Resources
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/catalogue.elra.info
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OaiIdentifier:		oai:catalogue.elra.info:ELRA-S0215
DateStamp:		2006-06-07
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		n.a. 2006. ELRA (European Language Resources Association).
Terms:		area_Europe country_GB dcmi_Sound iso639_eng olac_primary_text