OLAC Record oai:catalogue.elra.info:ELRA-S0116

Metadata
Title:		Italian SpeechDat(II) MDB-250
Abstract:		This speech database contains the recordings of 375 Italian speakers recorded over the Italian mobile telephone network. Each speaker uttered around 50 items.
Access Rights:		Rights available for: Research Use, Commercial Use
Date Available (W3CDTF):		2001-11-05
Date Issued (W3CDTF):		2004-09-14
Date Modified (W3CDTF):		2007-02-22
Description:		Telephone
		The Italian SpeechDat(II) MDB-250 comprises 375 Italian speakers recorded over the Italian mobile telephone network. The MDB-250 database is partitioned into 6 CDs in ISO 9660 format. The speech databases made within the SpeechDat(II) project were validated by SPEX, the Netherlands, to assess their compliance with the SpeechDat format and content specifications. Speech samples are stored as sequences of 8-bit 8 kHz A-law. 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. Each speaker uttered the following items: ? 2 isolated digits ? 1 sequence of 10 isolated digits ? 4 connected digits: 1 prompt sheet number (5+ digits), 1 telephone number (9-11 digits), 1 credit card number (14-16 digits), 1 PIN code (6 digits) ? 3 dates: 1 spontaneous date (e.g. birthday), 1 prompted date (word style), 1 relative and general date expression. ? 1 word spotting phrase using an application word (embedded). ? 6 application words ? 3 spelled words: 1 spontaneous name (own forename), 1 city name, 1 real / artificial word for coverage. ? 1 Lira currency money amount. ? 1 natural number. ? 7 directory assistance names: 1 spontaneous name (own forename), 1 city of birth / growing up (spontaneous), 2 most frequent cities (set of 25), 2 most frequent company / agency (set of 25), 1 ?forename surname? (set of 150 ?full? names) ? 2 questions including ?fuzzy? yes / no: 1 predominantly ?Yes? question, 1 predominantly ?No? question. ? 9 phonetically rich sentences. ? 2 time phrases: 1 time of day (spontaneous), 1 time phrase (word style). ? 4 phonetically rich words. 5 more items were added to the Italian corpus (4 spontaneous, 1 read). The following age distribution has been obtained: 3 speaker are below 16 years old, 147 speakers are between 16 and 30, 149 speakers are between 31 and 45, 56 speakers are between 46 and 60, 48 speakers are over 60. A pronunciation lexicon with a phonemic transcription in SAMPA is also included.
Identifier:		ELRA-S0116
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Language:		Italian
Language (ISO639):		ita
Medium:		CD-ROM
Publisher:		ELRA (European Language Resources Association)
Type (DCMI):		Sound
Type (OLAC):		primary_text
OLAC Info
Archive:		ELRA Catalogue of Language Resources
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/catalogue.elra.info
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for OLAC format
GetRecord:		Pre-generated XML file
OAI Info
OaiIdentifier:		oai:catalogue.elra.info:ELRA-S0116
DateStamp:		2001-11-05
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		n.a. 2004. ELRA (European Language Resources Association).
Terms:		area_Europe country_IT dcmi_Sound iso639_ita olac_primary_text