ELRA - ELRA-U-S 0084 : Formosa Speech Database

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Catalog Reference : ELRA-U-S 0084

Formosa Speech Database

This multilingual corpus contains speech for the three most frequently used languages in Taiwan: Mandarin, Min-Nan (Taiwanese) and Hakka. The project plans to record more than 1,800 speakers and hundreds of hours.

- Acquisition: microphone or telephone.
- Speech recorded using a microphone: 16KHz/16bits PCM file.
- Speech recorded using a telephone: 8KHz/8bits m -law file.
Each audio file has a corresponding label file containing the phonetic transcription.

A first version of this corpus has already been released. It contains the speech of 600 speakers of Taiwanese and Mandarin, for a total of 49 hours of speech and 247,000 utterances.

It is produced for the development of multilingual speech systems.

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Version : v 1.0
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application Area : Research

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speech corpus
Language(s) : Mandarin (Taiwan) ; Chinese (Taiwan)
Source Channel : Microphone#Telephone
Speech Acquisition Mode : Acoustic
Transcription Entries : Phonetic