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Wikipedia / Speech corpus

A speech corpus (or spoken corpus) is a database of speech audio files and text transcriptions. In speech technology, speech corpora are used, among other things, to create acoustic models (which can then be used with a speech recognition or speaker identification engine). In linguistics, spoken corpora are used to do research into phonetic, conversation analysis, dialectology and other fields.

A corpus is one such database. Corpora is the plural of corpus (i.e. it is many such databases).

There are two types of speech corpora:

Read Speech, which includes:

  • Book excerpts

  • Broadcast news

  • Lists of words

  • Sequences of numbers

Spontaneous Speech, which includes:

  • Dialogs – between two or more people (includes meetings; one such corpus is the KEC);

  • Narratives – a person telling a story (one such corpus is the Buckeye Corpus);

  • Map-tasks – one person explains a route on a map to another;

  • Appointment-tasks – two people try to find a common meeting time based on individual schedules.

A special kind of speech corpora are non-native speech databases that contain speech with a foreign accent.

See also

References

  • Edwards, Jane / Lampert, Martin (eds.) (1992): Talking Data – Transcription and Coding in Discourse Research. Hillsdale: Erlbaum.

  • Leech, Geoffrey / Myers, Greg / Thomas, Jenny (eds.) (1995): Spoken English on Computer: Transcription, Markup and Application. Harlow: Longman.

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