ELRA - ELRA-U-S0211 : Spoken Corpus of British English

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Catalog Reference : ELRA-U-S0211

Spoken Corpus of British English

The Spoken Corpus of British English (SCRIBE) provides read and spontaneous speech by male and female speakers from four different areas in the UK: South East, Glasgow, Leeds and Birmingham. SCRIBE stands for Spoken Corpus Recordings In British English.

The database is divided into two target corpora subsets:
- Many Talker Corpus (120 talkers),
- Few Talker Corpus (30 talkers).

The read speech consists of phonetically rich sentences, phonetically compact sentences and a two-minute continuous passage. The spontaneous speech consists of giving a verbal description of a picture.

Recordings were made in an anechoic chamber using both a close talking microphone and a condenser microphone, with a 16 bit resolution and a sampling rate of 20 kHz for each channel.

Text files contain phonetic annotation and labelling data in standard SAM format.

Production

Project : SCRIBE

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speech corpus
Language(s) : English (United Kingdom)
Source Channel : Microphone
Speech Acquisition Mode : Acoustic
Recording Environment : Anechoic room
Speech Content : Continuous sentences#Phonetically rich sentences#Phonetically balanced sentences
Transcription Entries : Orthographic#Phonetic