OLAC Record oai:catalogue.elra.info:ELRA-S0160

Metadata
Title:		Spanish Speecon database
Abstract:		The Spanish Speecon database comprises the recordings of 561 adult Spanish speakers and 55 child Spanish speakers who uttered respectively over 290 items and 210 items (read and spontaneous).
Access Rights:		Rights available for: Research Use, Commercial Use
Date Available (W3CDTF):		2004-06-07
Date Issued (W3CDTF):		2004-11-03
Date Modified (W3CDTF):		2006-03-13
Description:		Desktop/Microphone
		The Spanish Speecon database is divided into 2 sets: The first set comprises the recordings of 561 adult Spanish speakers (279 males, 282 females), recorded over 4 microphone channels in 4 recording environments (office, entertainment, car, public place). The second set comprises the recordings of 55 child Spanish speakers (27 boys, 28 girls), recorded over 4 microphone channels in 1 recording environment (children room). This database is partitioned into 21 DVDs (first set) and 3 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: Calibration data: - 6 noise recordings - The ?silence word? recording Free 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 children - 5 phonetically rich words (adults only) - 4 isolated digits - 1 isolated digit sequence - 4 connected digit sequences - 1 telephone number - 3 natural numbers - 1 money amount - 2 time phrases (T1 : analogue, T2 : digital) - 3 dates (D1 : analogue, D2 : relative and general date, D3 : digital) - 3 letter sequences - 1 proper name - 2 city or street names - 2 questions - 2 special keyboard characters - 1 Web address - 1 email address - 208 application specific words and phrases per session (adults) - 74 toy commands and 48 general commands (children) The following age distribution has been obtained: Adults: 313 speakers are between 15 and 30, 176 speakers are between 31 and 45, 61 speakers are between 46 and 60, and 11 speakers are over 60. Children: 19 speakers are between 8 and 10, 36 speakers are between 11 and 14. A pronunciation lexicon with a phonemic transcription in SAMPA is also included.
Identifier:		ELRA-S0160
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Language:		Spanish, Castilian
Language (ISO639):		spa
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-S0160
DateStamp:		2004-06-07
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		n.a. 2004. ELRA (European Language Resources Association).
Terms:		area_Europe country_ES dcmi_Sound iso639_spa olac_primary_text