N4 NATO native and non-native speech / [Author, John Grieco ... and others].

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Grieco, John.

Linguistic Data Consortium.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Language:

Dutch

English

German

Subjects (All):

Cross-language information retrieval--Databases.

Cross-language information retrieval.

English language--Spoken English--Data processing--Databases.

English language.

German language--Spoken German--Data processing--Databases.

German language.

Dutch language--Spoken Dutch--Data processing--Databases.

Dutch language.

Speech perception.

Automatic speech recognition.

Dutch language--Spoken Dutch.

German language--Spoken German.

English language--Spoken English--Data processing.

English language--Spoken English.

Genre:

Databases.

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 DVD-ROM : sound ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

Other Title:

N four NATO native and non-native speech

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia, PA] : Linguistic Data Consortium, 2006.

Language Note:

English, Dutch, and German.

System Details:

digital

optical

data file

Summary:

"This file contains documentation on the N4 NATO Native and Non-Native Speech Corpus, Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) catalog number LDC2006S13 and isbn 1-58563-344-5. The N4 NATO Native and Non-Native Speech corpus was developed by the NATO research group on Speech and Language Technology in order to provide a military oriented database for multilingual and non-native speech processing studies. Speech data was recorded in the Naval transmission training centers of four countries(Germany, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, and Canada). The material consists of native and non-native speakers speakers using NATO English procedure between ships and reading from a text, "The North Wind and the Sun" in both English and the speaker's native language. Speech technology is covering an increasing number of languages, and systems are becoming more robust with regard to speech variablity such as speaking style and accents. However, for real applications especially in a multilingual and multinational context, further robustness to regional and even non-native accents is necessary. Among numerous corpora available for speech research few have specifically addressed this issue. The NATO Speech and Language Technology group decided to create a corpus geared towards the study of non-native accents. The group chose naval communications as the common task because it naturally includes a great deal of non-native speech and because there were training facilities where data could be collected in several countries."--index.html.

Notes:

"LDC2006S13."

Title from index.html file on DVD-ROM.

ISBN:

1585633445

9781585633449

OCLC:

70189493

Online:

LDC catalog entry

Using LDC Data general information