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Thursday, July 06, 2023 by Chris Wellekens

5-2-24 The UCLA Variability Speaker Database
  

With NSF support, our interdisciplinary team of voice research at UCLA recently put together a public database that we believe will be of interest to many members of the ISCA community. On behalf of my co-authors (Patricia Keating, Jody Kreiman, Abeer Alwan, Adam Chong), I'm writing to ask if we could advertise our database in the ISCA newsletter. We'd really appreciate your help with this.

 
The database, the UCLA Variability Speaker Database, is freely available through UCLA's Box cloud, which can be accessed from our lab website: http://www.seas.ucla.edu/spapl/shareware.html#Data I should mention that the database will also be available from the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) as of October, 2021.
 
Here's a brief description of the database.
The UCLA Variability Speaker Database comprises high-quality audio recordings from 202 speakers, 101 men 
and 101 women, performing 12 brief speech tasks in English over three recording sessions (total amount 
of speech: 300-450 sec per speaker). This public database was designed to sample variability in speaking 
within individual speakers and across a large number of speakers. The large set of speakers (similar in age) 
sampled from the current university community is gender-balanced and has a variety of language backgrounds. 
The database can serve as a testing ground for research questions involving between-speaker variability, 
within-speaker variability, and text-dependent variability. 
More details about the database are available in a readme file that can be sent on request.

--Cynthia Yoonjeong Lee
Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Linguistics, UCLA

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