GALE phase 2 Chinese broadcast conversation speech.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Walker, Kevin.

Linguistic Data Consortium.

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Series:

LDC corpora ; LDC2013S04

Language:

Chinese

Subjects (All):

Chinese language--Spoken Chinese--Databases.

Chinese language.

Automatic speech recognition.

Chinese language--Spoken Chinese.

Genre:

Databases.

Physical Description:

4 DVD-ROMs; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia, PA] : Linguistic Data Consortium, [2013]

Language Note:

Chinese.

System Details:

digital

optical

data file

Summary:

"... is comprised of approximately 120 hours of Chinese broadcast conversation speech collected in 2006 and 2007 by LDC and Hong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong, during Phase 2 of the DARPA GALE (Global Autonomous Language Exploitation) Program ....The broadcast conversation recordings in this release feature interviews, call-in programs and roundtable discussions focusing principally on current events from the following sources: Anhui TV, a regional television station in Mainland China, Anhui province, China Central TV (CCTV), a national and international broadcaster in Mainland China, Hubei TV, a regional broadcaster in Mainland China, Hubei province, and Phoenix TV, a Hong Kong-based satellite television station. A table showing the number of programs and hours recorded from each source is contained in the readme file .... This release contains 202 audio files presented in Waveform Audio File format (.wav), 16000 Hz single-channel 16-bit PCM." -- LDC online catalogue.

Notes:

Title from disc label.

Data type(s): speech.

Data source(s): broadcast conversation.

Application(s): speech recognition.

Authors: Kevin Walker, Christopher Caruso, Kazuaki Maeda, Denise DiPersio, Stephanie Strassel.

ISBN:

1585636428

9781585636426

OCLC:

841166313

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.

Online:

LDC catalog entry