ELRA - ELRA-U-S 0041 : Expressive Speech Corpus of Standard Chinese

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Catalog Reference : ELRA-U-S 0041

Expressive Speech Corpus of Standard Chinese

This Chinese corpus contains data of different speaking styles (read, spontaneous, ... ), genres (weather report, short stories, ...) and situations (dialogues, monologues, with various scenarios). It is composed of four subcorpora:

- DIACRIPT: performed dialogues.
- DIAREAD: read utterances (based on the transcriptions of DIACRIPT).
- SPONCON: spontaneous dialogues.
- EXPDISC: performed expressive discourses.

6 professional speakers (3 male and 3 female speakers) were recorded in an anechoic room (14 non professional more for the SPONCON subcorpus).

The transcription is an orthographic transcription in Chinese characters, with indications of syllables, initials and finals, stress, prosodic boundaries. The annotation concerns paralinguistic information, for example emotions, and linguistic information (speech act and discourse function annotation).

It is a resource of great value for research on speech synthesis, speech analysis, recognition. More specifically, it has been designed to improve spontaneity and expressiveness in speech synthesis. The project was supported by the high-tech program "spontaneous speech generation in natural human machine interaction".

Applications

	Applications possible : Speech recognition#Spoken dialogue systems#Speech synthesis#Automatic speech recognition
application Area : Research

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speech corpus
Language(s) : Chinese
Source Channel : Microphone
Speech Acquisition Mode : Acoustic
Recording Environment : anechoic room
Transcription Entries : Orthographic#Phonetic