ELRA - ELRA-ST83 : SALA II Spanish Mobile Network Database collected in Venezuela

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SALA II Spanish Mobile Network Database collected in Venezuela

The SALA II Spanish Mobile Network Database collected in Venezuela was recorded within the scope of the SALA II project.

The SALA II Spanish Venezuelan database contains the recordings of 1,179 Venezuelan speakers (576 males and 603 females) recorded over the Venezuelan mobile telephone network.
The following acoustic conditions were selected as representative of a mobile user's environment:

* Passenger in moving car (160 speakers)
* Public place (461 speakers)
* Stationary pedestrian by road side (236 speakers)
* Home/Office environment (272 speakers)
* Passenger in moving car using a hands-free kit (160 speakers)

This database is distributed as 1 DVD-ROMs The speech files are stored as sequences of 8-bit, 8kHz a-law speech files and are not compressed, according to the specifications of SALA II. Each prompt utterance is stored within a separate file and has an accompanying ASCII SAM label file. This speech database was validated by SPEX (the Netherlands) to assess its compliance with the SALA II format and content specifications.

Each speaker uttered the following items:

* 6 application words
* 1 sequence of 10 isolated digits
* 4 connected digits (1 sheet number -6 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 spotting phrase using an embedded application word
* 1 isolated digit
* 3 spelled words (1surname, 1 directory assistance city name, 1 real/artificial name for coverage)
* 1 currency money amount
* 1 natural number
* 5 directory assistance names (1 surname out of a set of 500, 1 city of birth/growing up, 1 most frequent city out of a set of 500, 1 most frequent company/agency out of a set of 500, 1 “forename surname” out of a set of 150 )
* 2 yes/no questions (1 predominantly “yes” question, 1 predominantly “no” question)
* 9 phonetically rich sentences
* 2 time phrases (1 spontaneous time of day, 1word style time phrase)
* 4 phonetically rich words

The following age distribution has been obtained: 7 speakers are under 16, 624 speakers are between 16 and 30, 368 speakers are between 31 and 45, 160 speakers are between 46 and 60, and 20 speakers are over 60.

It is distributed through the ELRA catalogue http://catalog.elra.info under the reference S0167.

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speech corpus
Language(s) : Spanish, Castilian (Venezuela)
Source Channel : Telephone