ELRA - ELRA-U-S 0105 : UME-ERJ English Speech Database Read by Japanese Students

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UME-ERJ English Speech Database Read by Japanese Students

The UME-ERJ corpus is a database of English read by Japanese Students.
It contains the following sets:

a) Set for phonemic pronunciation:
- 460 phonetically-balanced sentences.
- 32 sentences including phoneme sequences difficult for Japanese speakers to pronounce correctly.
- 100 sentences designed for test set.
- 302 minimal-pair words.
- 300 phonemically balanced words.

b) Set for prosody:
- 94 sentences with various intonation patterns.
- 120 sentences with various accent patterns.
- 109 words with various accent patterns.

Number of speakers: 202 speakers (100 males and 102 females).

Each sentence is read by 12 speakers and each word is read by 20 speakers.

Technical information: 16kHz, 16bit.

Project: Priority Areas "Advanced Utilization of Multimedia to Promote Higher Education Reform".

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application Area : Education#Research

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speech corpus
Language(s) : English (Japan)
Quantisation : 16 bits
Source Channel : Microphone
Speech Acquisition Mode : Acoustic