An English language speech database at the University of Western Australia

The authors present a report on the content and status of a major speech database collection effort. The goal is to collect a useful set of speech material from a very large number of speakers. These speakers are drawn from a wide cross-section of the local community with a variety of ethnic and edu...

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Published inInternational Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing pp. 101 - 104 vol.1
Main Authors Lai, E.M., Carrijo, G.A., Bennett, R., Togneri, R., Alder, M., Attikiouzel, Y.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 1990
Subjects
Electric breakdown
Modulation coding
Natural languages
Phase change materials
Pulse modulation
Speech coding
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Summary:The authors present a report on the content and status of a major speech database collection effort. The goal is to collect a useful set of speech material from a very large number of speakers. These speakers are drawn from a wide cross-section of the local community with a variety of ethnic and educational backgrounds. Speech materials include isolated digits and numbers, vowels and voiced phonemes, connected digits, and phonetically balanced sentences. Speech signals are encoded into 16-bit pulse code modulation (PCM) format and stored on Betamax format video tapes. In the seven months since this project started, speech from 100 speakers has been collected. A statistical breakdown of the backgrounds of the speakers is presented.< >
ISSN:1520-6149
2379-190X
DOI:10.1109/ICASSP.1990.115548