ELRA - U-S0334 : TC-STAR female baseline voice: Laura

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TC-STAR female baseline voice: Laura

Laura was created within the scope of the TC-STAR project (IST- FP6-506738) funded by the European Commission.

Laura contains the recordings of one female English (British) speaker recorded in a noise-reduced room through a headset microphone. It consists of the recordings and annotations of read text material of approximately 10 hours of speech for baseline applications (Text-to-Speech systems). The database complies with the common specifications created in the TC-STAR project.

The annotation of the database includes manual orthographic transcriptions, the automatic segmentation into phonemes and automatic generation of pitch marks. A certain percentage of phonetic segments and pitch marks has been manually checked. A pronunciation lexicon in SAMPA with POS, lemma and phonetic transcription of all the words prompted and spoken is also provided.

Speech samples are stored as sequences of 24-bit 96 kHz with the least significant byte first (“lohi” or Intel format) as (signed) integers. Each prompted utterance is stored in a separate file. Each signal file is accompanied by an ASCII SAM label file which contains the relevant descriptive information.

See U-S0335 for the TC-STAR male baseline voice: Ian.

ISLRN : 232-857-115-137-3

Production

Project : TC-STAR

Creation date : 2007

Applications

Applications existing : Speech synthesis

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speech corpus
Language(s) : English
TEXT_BYTE_ORDERLo-Hi
TEXT_DATA_FORMATSigned integer
TEXT_CLIPPING_RATE_PERCENTAGE96 khz
Source Channel : Microphone
Speech Acquisition Interface : Sound card
Recording Environment : noise reduced room
Transcription Entries : Orthographic