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ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update
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ELRA is happy to announce that 2 new Multimodal and 3 new Speech Resources are now available in its catalogue.
Moreover, two Speech Resources previously announced are now available at better pricing conditions.

1) New Language Resources:

ELRA-S0314 LILA Marathi database
The LILA Marathi database comprises 2,002 Marathi speakers (992 males and 1010 females) recorded over the Korean mobile telephone network. Each speaker uttered around 46 read and spontaneous items.
For more information, see: http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1136

ELRA-S0315 A-SpeechDB
A-SpeechDB© is an Arabic speech database which contains about 20 hours of continuous speech recorded through one desktop omni microphone by 205 native speakers (about 30% of females and 70% of males), aged between 20 and 45. Automatically generated transcriptions are provided with a manually revised version for each sentence.
For more information, see: http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1140

ELRA-S0316 SmartKom Home (SKH)
Release SKH 1.0 contains 130 recordings in the technical setup ('scenario') SmartKom Home which should be an intelligent communication assistant for the private environment. Naive users were asked to test a 'prototype' for a market study not knowing that the system was in fact controlled by two human operators. They were asked to solve two tasks in a period of 4.5 minutes while they were left alone with the system.
For more information, see: http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1137

ELRA-S0317 SmartKom Mobil (SKM)
Release SKM 1.0 contains 146 recordings in the technical setup ('scenario') SmartKom Mobil which is a portable PDA equipped with a net link and additional intelligent communication devices. Naive users were asked to test a 'prototype' for a market study not knowing that the system was in fact controlled by two human operators. They were asked to solve two tasks in a period of 4,5 min while they were left alone with the system.
For more information, see: http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1138

ELRA-S0318 SmartKom Audio (SKAUDIO)
Release SKAUDIO 1.0 contains all audio channel recordings of the SmartKom corpora SmartKom Public (cf. ELRA-S0136), SmartKom Home (cf. ELRA-S0316) and SmartKom Mobil (cf. ELRA-S0317).
For more information, see: http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1139


2) Revised Language Resources (new pricing conditions):

ELRA-S0136 SmartKom Public (SKP)
Release SKP 2.0 contains 172 recordings in the technical setup ('scenario') SmartKom Public which is comparable to a traditional public phone booth but equipped with additional intelligent communication devices. Naive users were asked to test a 'prototype' for a market study not knowing that the system was in fact controlled by two human operators. They were asked to solve two tasks in a period of 4.5 minutes while they were left alone with the system.
For more information, see: http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?cPath=37_39&products_id=1130

ELRA-S0281 LILA Hindi-L1 database
The LILA Hindi-L1 database comprises 2,030 Hindi speakers (1,012 males and 1,018 females, all speakers with Hindi as first language) recorded over the Indian mobile telephone network. Each speaker uttered around 60 read and spontaneous items.
For more information, see: http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1071


For more information on the catalogue, please contact Valérie Mapelli mailto:mapelli@elda.org

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