ELRA new resource

Khalid Choukri (elra@calvanet.calvacom.fr)
Fri, 27 Jun 1997 21:03:19 +0200 (MET DST)

[ We apologise for the duplicate posting of this announcement ]

EUROPEAN LANGUAGE RESOURCES ASSOCIATION
ELRA News
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*** NEW CATALOGUE & NEW RESOURCES ***

ELRA is happy to announce the update of its catalogue
of Language resources for Language Engineering and Research.
It currently consists of:

1) Spoken resources: 39 databases in several languages (recordings
from microphone, telephone, continuous speech, isolated words, phonetic
dictionaries, etc.).

2) Written resources:
* 14 monolingual and multilingual corpora
* 28 monolingual lexica
* Around 60 multilingual lexica
* A linguistic software platform and grammars development platform

3) Terminological resources: over 360 databases with a wide range of
domains and several languages (Catalan, Danish, English, French, German,
Italian, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish).

We would like to inform you that a new resource (from ITC-IRST, Italy)
is now available via ELRA. A brief description is given herein:

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* ELRA-S0039 APASCI (ITC-IRST) *
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APASCI is an Italian acoustic database recorded in insulated room with a
Sennheiser MKH 416 T microphone. It includes ca. 16090 utterances and
digits, 58924 words (2191 different words), 641 minutes of speech.

The data is uttered by 100 Italian speakers (50 male and 50 female). Each
of them uttered 1 calibration sentence, 4 sentences having a wide
phonetic coverage, 15 or 20 sentences having a wide diphonic coverage.

Six speakers (3 male and 3 female) uttered 26 occurrences of the
calibration sentence, 104 sentences having a wide phonetic coverage,
390 sentences having a wide diphonic coverage.

54 of the speakers (42 male and 12 female) repeated 20 times 10
isolated digits.

The linguistic annotations of the database are given at the phonemic and
orthographic levels.

This database aims to design, train and evaluate continuous speech
recognition systems (speaker independent, speaker adaptive, speaker dependent,
multispeakers).
It is also designed for research on acoustic and linguistic models,
and for research on new acoustic parameters for speech recognition.

o Format: 16 bit linear
o Standard: NIST SPHERE
o Sampling rate: 16 kHz
o Medium: CD-ROM

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For more information, please contact:
ELRA/ELDA
87, Avenue d'Italie
75013 PARIS
Tel: +33 1 45 86 53 00
Fax: +33 1 45 86 44 88
E-mail: info-elra@calva.net
http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html
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Khalid CHOUKRI
ELRA /ELDA
Tel. +33 1 45 86 53 00
Fax. +33 1 45 86 44 88
87, Avenue D'ITALIE, 75013 PARIS
Email: elra@calvanet.calvacom.fr
Web: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html
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