ELRA - ELRA-U-S 0046 : Corpora for Infant Cry

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Catalog Reference : ELRA-U-S 0046

Corpora for Infant Cry

This is a database of infant cries. 200 infants were recorded in three different hospitals (various ages, weights, diseases, ...).

Cries are classified as follows: normal infant cries, normal infants with abnormal cries, extremely sick newborns, pre-term born cries and new born first cries.

Technical recording conditions:
Material: Cenix digital voice recorder, model VR-P2340, 64 MB memory.
Storage: imbedded flash memory.
Sampling rate: 12kHz, with PCM 16 bits.

Cry is the primary means of communication for infants. Its analysis could provide tools for medical diagnosis.

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application Area : Research

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speech corpus
Language(s) :
Quantisation : 16 bit
Signal Encoding : Linear PCM
Source Channel : Microphone
Speech Acquisition Interface : Sound card