OLAC Record oai:catalogue.elra.info:ELRA-S0138

Metadata
Title:		Cantonese SpeechDat-like MDB-2000
Abstract:		This speech database contains the recordings of 2,000 speakers recorded over the mobile telephone network in China and Hong Kong. The database follows the specifications given in the framework of the SpeechDat project.
Access Rights:		Rights available for: Research Use, Commercial Use
Date Available (W3CDTF):		2002-11-06
Date Issued (W3CDTF):		2005-05-11
Date Modified (W3CDTF):		2007-02-22
Description:		Telephone
		The Cantonese SpeechDat-like MDB-2000 database contains the recordings of 2,000 Cantonese speakers (996 males, 1,004 females) recorded over the mobile telephone network in China and Hong Kong. The MDB-2000 database is partitioned into 11 CDs in ISO 9660 format. It follows the specifications given in the framework of the SpeechDat(II) project. 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 database was validated by SPEX (the Netherlands) to assess its compliance with the SpeechDat(II) format and content specifications. Each speaker uttered the following items: * 2 isolated digits * 1 sequence of 10 isolated digits * 4 connected digits (1 prompt sheet number -4 digits, 1 telephone number ?9/11 digits, 1 credit card number ?14/16 digits, 1 PIN code -6 digits) * 3 dates (1 spontaneous date e.g. birthday, 1 word style prompted date, 1 relative and general date expression) * 1 word spotting phrase using an embedded application word * 6 application words * 3 spelled words (1 spontaneous name e.g. own forename, 1 city name, 1 real/artificial word for coverage) * 1 currency money amount * 1 natural number * 5 directory assistance names (1 spontaneous name e.g. own forename, 1 city of birth/growing up, 1 most frequent cities out of a set of 500, 1 most frequent company/agency out of a set of 500, 1 isolated city name, 1 "forename surname" out of a set of 400 ?full? names) * 2 yes/no questions (1 predominantly "Yes" question, 1 predominantly "No" question) * 9 phonetically rich sentences * 2 time phrases (1 spontaneous time of day, 1 word style time phrase) * 4 phonetically rich words The following age distribution has been obtained: 74 speakers are under 16, 953 speakers are between 16 and 30, 636 speakers are between 31 and 45, 328 speakers are between 46 and 60, 9 speakers are over 60. A pronunciation lexicon with a phonemic transcription in SAMPA is also included.
Identifier:		ELRA-S0138
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Language:		Chinese
Language (ISO639):		zho
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
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OAI Info
OaiIdentifier:		oai:catalogue.elra.info:ELRA-S0138
DateStamp:		2002-11-06
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		n.a. 2005. ELRA (European Language Resources Association).
Terms:		dcmi_Sound iso639_zho olac_primary_text