OLAC Record oai:catalogue.elra.info:ELRA-S0110

Metadata
Title:		Luxembourgish-German SpeechDat(II) FDB-500
Abstract:		This speech database contains the recordings of 560 Luxembourgish-German speakers recorded over the Luxembourgish fixed telephone network. Each speaker uttered around 50 items.
Access Rights:		Rights available for: Research Use, Commercial Use
Date Available (W3CDTF):		2001-05-23
Date Issued (W3CDTF):		2004-11-03
Date Modified (W3CDTF):		2006-03-13
Description:		Telephone
		The Luxembourgish-German SpeechDat(II) FDB-500 database contains the recordings of 560 Luxembourgish-German speakers (247 Males, 313 Females) recorded over the Luxembourgish fixed telephone network. This database is partitioned into 3 CDs, which comprise 160 to 200 speakers? sessions each. Speech samples are stored as sequences of 8-bit 8 kHz A-law. Each prompted utterance is stored in a separate file. Each signal file is accompanied by an ASCII SAM label file, which contains the relevant descriptive information. This speech database was validated by SPEX (the Netherlands) to assess its compliance with the SpeechDat format and content specifications. Each speaker uttered the following items: - 7 application words - 4 isolated digits - 1 sequence of 10 isolated digits - 5 connected digits (1 area code, 1 spontaneous phone number, 1 credit card number ?15/16 digits, etc. - 3 dates (1 spontaneous date e.g. birthday, 1 prompted date, 1 general and relative date expression) - 1 embedded application word - 4 spelled words - 1 currency money amount - 1 natural number - 6 directory assistance names (1 forename, 1 city of birth, 1 most frequent city, 1 city name, 1 company name, 1 "forename surname") - 2 yes/no questions (1 predominantly "yes" question, 1 predominantly "no" question) - 10 phonetically rich sentences - 2 time phrases (1 spontaneous time of day, 1 time phrase) - 6 phonetically rich words The following age distribution has been obtained: 5 speakers are under 16, 113 speakers are between 16 and 30, 174 speakers are between 31 and 45, 184 speakers are between 46 and 60 and 84 are over 60. A pronunciation lexicon with a phonemic transcription in SAMPA is also included.
Identifier:		ELRA-S0110
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Language:		German
Language (ISO639):		deu
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
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for OLAC format
GetRecord:		Pre-generated XML file
OAI Info
OaiIdentifier:		oai:catalogue.elra.info:ELRA-S0110
DateStamp:		2001-05-23
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		n.a. 2004. ELRA (European Language Resources Association).
Terms:		area_Europe country_DE dcmi_Sound iso639_deu olac_primary_text