ELRA - ELRA-U-S0294 : German Today Corpus

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Catalog Reference : ELRA-U-S0294

German Today Corpus

This corpus contains read and spontaneous German speech recorded in more than 160 towns throughout the German speaking area of Europe (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxemburg, Liechtenstein, Eastern Belgium and South Tirol, Italy).

Speakers are high school students (aged between 16 and 20) and older adults (aged between 50 and 60). More than 800 speakers were recorded, each of one producing 90 minutes of speech (read speech, interview, map task). The database contains about 1200 hours of speech.

Speech was recorded through a headset microphone and stored at a sampling rate of 44,1 kHz, 16 bits. Orthographic and phonetic transcriptions are provided, in addition to an XML-format metadata including informations about speakers and recording places.

The research project “German Today” aims at determining the amount of regional variation in near-standard German spoken by young and older educated adults as well as identifying and locating regional features.

Production

Project : German Today

Creation date : 2008

Applications

Applications existing : Discourse analysis

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speech corpus
Language(s) : German
Quantisation : 16 bits
Source Channel : Microphone
Transcription Entries : Orthographic#Phonetic