OLAC Record oai:catalogue.elra.info:ELRA-S0260

Metadata
Title:		Orientel English as spoken in the United Arab Emirates
Abstract:		This speech database contains the recordings of 535 speakers of English recorded over the United Arab Emirates' fixed and mobile telephone network. Each speaker uttered around 51 read and spontaneous items.
Access Rights:		Rights available for: Research Use, Commercial Use
Date Available (W3CDTF):		2007-12-18
Date Issued (W3CDTF):		2007-12-18
Date Modified (W3CDTF):		2008-01-11
Description:		Telephone
		The Orientel English as spoken in the United Arab Emirates database comprises 535 speakers (266 males, 269 females) recorded over the local fixed and mobile telephone network. This database is partitioned into 2 DVDs. The speech databases made within the OrienTel project were validated by SPEX, the Netherlands, to assess their compliance with the OrienTel format and content specifications. 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. Each speaker uttered the following items: ? 1 isolated single digit ? 1 sequence of 10 isolated digits ? 5 connected digits : 1 prompt sheet number (6 digits), 1 telephone number (6-15 digits), 1 credit card number (14/16 digits), 1 PIN code (6 digits), 1 spontaneous phone number ? 1 currency money amounts ? 2 natural number ? 3 dates : 1 spontaneous (date or year of birth), 1 prompted date, 1 relative or general date expression ? 2 time phrases : 1 time of day (spontaneous), 1 time phrase (word style) ? 3 spelled words : 1 first name, 1 city name, 1 real/artificial word for coverage ? 5 directory assistance utterances : 1 spontaneous forename, 1 city of childhood (spontaneous), 1 frequent city name, 1 frequent company name, 1 common forename and surname ? 4 yes/no questions : 1 predominantly yes question, 1 predominantly no question, 2 fuzzy spontaneous, 1 fuzzy prompted ? 6 application keywords/keyphrases ? 1 word spotting phrase using embedded application words ? 4 phonetically rich words ? 9 phonetically rich sentences ? 4 spontaneous items (for control) The following age distribution has been obtained: 319 speakers are between 15 and 30, 162 speakers are between 31 and 45, 54 speakers are over 46. A pronunciation lexicon with a phonemic transcription in SAMPA is also included.
Identifier:		ELRA-S0260
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Language:		English
Language (ISO639):		eng
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-S0260
DateStamp:		2007-12-18
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		n.a. 2007. ELRA (European Language Resources Association).
Terms:		area_Europe country_GB dcmi_Sound iso639_eng olac_primary_text