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Wednesday, April 11, 2012 by Chris Wellekens |
5-2-1 | ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update (2012-03) *****************************************************************
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5-2-2 | LDC Newsletter (March 2012) In this newsletter: - 2012 LDC Survey Responses and Benefit Winner - New publications: LDC2012T02 LDC2012S04 2012 LDC Survey Responses and Benefit Winner Thanks to all who participated in the 2012 LDC Survey. Your responses were thoughtful and informative. We’re now analyzing the results; stay tuned for an announcement on the survey findings. In the meantime, please join us in congratulating Todor Ganchev from the University of Patras, Wire Communications Laboratory (WCL) for winning the survey participation benefit! As a reminder, one $500 benefit was awarded to a blindly-selected participant whose response was received by February 7, 2012. LDC at ICASSP 2012 LDC will be traveling across the globe to exhibit at its first IEEE-hosted event. The 37th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) will be held at the Kyoto International Conference Center in Kyoto, Japan, on March 25 - 30, 2012. The ICASSP meeting is the world’s largest and most comprehensive technical conference focused on signal processing and its applications, and LDC is looking forward to interacting with members of this community. Please look for LDC’s exhibition at Booth #14 in the Annex Hall. We hope to see you there! New Publications (1) English Translation Treebank: An Nahar Newswire was developed by LDC and consists of 599 distinct newswire stories from the Lebanese publication An Nahar translated from Arabic to English and annotated for part-of-speech and syntactic structure. This corpus is part of an ongoing effort at LDC to produce parallel Arabic and English treebanks. The guidelines followed for both part-of-speech and syntactic annotation are Penn Treebank II style, with changes in the tokenization of hyphenated words, part-of-speech and tree changes necessitated by those tokenization changes and revisions to the syntactic annotation to comply with the updated annotation guidelines (including the 'Treebank-PropBank merge' or 'Treebank IIa' and 'treebank c' changes). The original Penn Treebank II guidelines, addenda describing changes to the guidelines and the tokenization specifications can be found on LDC's website. The data consists of 461,489 tokens in 599 individual files. The news stories in this release were published in An Nahar in 2002. The English sources files (translated from the Arabic) were automatically tokenized, part-of-speech tagged and parsed; the tokens, tags and parses were manually corrected. The quality control process consisted of a series of specific searches for over 100 types of potential inconsistency and parse or annotation error. Any errors found in those searches were manually corrected. Annotations are in the following two formats:
English Translation Treebank: An Nahar Newswire is distributed via web download. * (2) Malto Speech and Transcripts was developed by Masato Kobayashi, Associate Professor in Linguistics at the University of Tokyo (Japan), and Bablu Tirkey, research scholar at the Tribal and Regional Languages Department, Ranchi University (India). It contains approximately 8 hours of Malto speech data collected between 2005 and 2009 from 27 speakers (22 males, 5 females). Also included are accompanying transcripts, English translations and glosses for 6 hours of the collection. Speakers were asked to talk about themselves, their lives, rituals and folklore; elicitation interviews were then conducted. The goal of the work was to present the current state and dialectal variation of Malto. Malto is a Dravidian language spoken in northeastern India (principally the states of Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal) and Bangladesh by people called the Pahariyas. Indian census data places the number of Malto speakers in a range of between 100,000-200,000 total speakers. Most Malto speakers live in the three northeastern districts of Jharkhand, i.e, Sahebganj, Godda and Pakur; the fieldwork that resulted in this corpus was conducted in those districts. Of the Pahariyas in that area, three subtribes, the Sawriya Pahariyas, the Mal Pahariyas and the Kumarbhag Pahariyas, primarily speak Malto. The transcribed data accounts for 6 hours of the collection and contains 21 speakers (17 male, 4 female). The untranscribed data accounts for 2 hours of the collection and contains 10 speakers (9 male, 1 female). Four of the male speakers are present in both groups. All audio is presented in .wav format. Each audio file name includes a subject number, village name, speaker name and the topic discussed. The transcripts and glossary are UTF-8 text files. Because of ambiguities that occur when writing Malto in Devenagari script, the transcripts were developed using Roman script with symbols adapted from the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) but are not considered phonetic transcripts. Malto Speech and Transcripts is distributed on 1 DVD-ROM. 2012 Subscription Members will automatically receive two copies of this corpus. 2012 Standard Members may request a copy as part of their 16 free membership corpora. The first 100 copies distributed to non-member organizations are available at no charge. Shipping and handling fees apply.
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5-2-3 | Speechocean January 2012 update Speechocean - Language Resource Catalogue - New Released (01- 2012) Speechocean, as a global provider of language resources and data services, has more than 200 large-scale databases available in 80+ languages and accents covering the fields of Text to Speech, Automatic Speech Recognition, Text, Machine Translation, Web Search, Videos, Images etc.
Speechocean is glad to announce that more Speech Resources has been released:
Chinese and English Mixing Speech Synthesis Database (Female) The Chinese Mandarin TTS Speech Corpus contains the read speech of a native Chinese Female professional broadcaster recorded in a studio with high SNR (>35dB) over two channels (AKG C4000B microphone and Electroglottography (EGG) sensor). All speech data are segmented and labeled on phone level. Pronunciation lexicon and pitch extract from EEG can also be provided based on demands.
France French Speech Recognition Corpus (desktop) – 50 speakers This France French desktop speech recognition database was collected by SpeechOcean in France. This database is one of our databases of Speech Data ----Desktop Project (SDD) which contains the database collections for 30 languages presently. It contains the voices of 50 different native speakers who were balanced distributed by age (mainly 16 – 30, 31 – 45, 46 – 60), gender (28 males, 22 females) and regional accents. The script was specially designed to provide material for both training and testing of many classes of speech recognition applications. Each speaker recorded 500 utterances in a quiet office environment through two professional microphones. Each utterance is stored as 44.1K 16Bit uncompressed PCM format and accompanied by an ASCII SAM label file which contains the relevant descriptive information. A pronunciation lexicon with a phonemic transcription in SAMPA is also included.
UK English Speech Recognition Corpus (desktop) – 50 speakers This UK English desktop speech recognition database was collected by SpeechOcean in England. This database is one of our databases of Speech Data ----Desktop Project (SDD) which contains the database collections for 30 languages presently. It contains the voices of 50 different native speakers who were balanced distributed by age (mainly 16 – 30, 31 – 45, 46 – 60), gender (28 males, 22 females) and regional accents. The script was specially designed to provide material for both training and testing of many classes of speech recognition applications. Each speaker recorded 500 utterances in a quiet office environment through two professional microphones. Each utterance is stored as 44.1K 16Bit uncompressed PCM format and accompanied by an ASCII SAM label file which contains the relevant descriptive information. A pronunciation lexicon with a phonemic transcription in SAMPA is also included.
US English Speech Recognition Corpus (desktop) – 50 speakers This US English desktop speech recognition database was collected by SpeechOcean in America. This database is one of our databases of Speech Data ----Desktop Project (SDD) which contains the database collections for 30 languages presently. It contains the voices of 50 different native speakers who were balanced distributed by age (mainly 16 – 30, 31 – 45, 46 – 60), gender (25 males, 25 females) and regional accents. The script was specially designed to provide material for both training and testing of many classes of speech recognition applications. Each speaker recorded 500 utterances in a quiet office environment through two professional microphones. Each utterance is stored as 44.1K 16Bit uncompressed PCM format and accompanied by an ASCII SAM label file which contains the relevant descriptive information. A pronunciation lexicon with a phonemic transcription in SAMPA is also included.
Italian Speech Recognition Corpus (desktop) – 50 speakers This Italian desktop speech recognition database was collected by SpeechOcean in Italy. This database is one of our databases of Speech Data ----Desktop Project (SDD) which contains the database collections for 30 languages presently. It contains the voices of 50 different native speakers who were balanced distributed by age (mainly 16 – 30, 31 – 45, 46 – 60), gender (23 males, 27 females) and regional accents. The script was specially designed to provide material for both training and testing of many classes of speech recognition applications. Each speaker recorded 500 utterances in a quiet office environment through two professional microphones. Each utterance is stored as 44.1K 16Bit uncompressed PCM format and accompanied by an ASCII SAM label file which contains the relevant descriptive information. A pronunciation lexicon with a phonemic transcription in SAMPA is also included.
For more information about our Database and Services please visit our website www.Speechocen.com or visit our on-line Catalogue at http://www.speechocean.com/en-Product-Catalogue/Index.html If you have any inquiry regarding our databases and service please feel free to contact us: Xianfeng Cheng mailto: Chengxianfeng@speechocean.com Marta Gherardi mailto: Marta@speechocean.com
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5-2-4 | Appen ButlerHill
Appen ButlerHill A global leader in linguistic technology solutions RECENT CATALOG ADDITIONS—MARCH 2012 1. Speech Databases 1.1 Telephony
2. Pronunciation Lexica Appen Butler Hill has considerable experience in providing a variety of lexicon types. These include: Pronunciation Lexica providing phonemic representation, syllabification, and stress (primary and secondary as appropriate) Part-of-speech tagged Lexica providing grammatical and semantic labels Other reference text based materials including spelling/mis-spelling lists, spell-check dictionar-ies, mappings of colloquial language to standard forms, orthographic normalization lists. Over a period of 15 years, Appen Butler Hill has generated a significant volume of licensable material for a wide range of languages. For holdings information in a given language or to discuss any customized development efforts, please contact: sales@appenbutlerhill.com
4. Other Language Resources Morphological Analyzers – Farsi/Persian & Urdu Arabic Thesaurus Language Analysis Documentation – multiple languages
For additional information on these resources, please contact: sales@appenbutlerhill.com 5. Customized Requests and Package Configurations Appen Butler Hill is committed to providing a low risk, high quality, reliable solution and has worked in 130+ languages to-date supporting both large global corporations and Government organizations. We would be glad to discuss to any customized requests or package configurations and prepare a cus-tomized proposal to meet your needs.
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