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Query Subject:	Speech Corpus for Neural Network Training
Author:	Scott Drellishak
Submitter Email:	click here to access email

Query:	I am involved in a research project whose goal is to produce a software system for the control of electronic devices using continuous variables extracted from human speech. Part of this system will be a neural network that recognizes various vowels and produces tracks of pitch and formant frequencies. Training the neural network will require a large amount of data that we're hoping to get from an existing corpus, rather than creating it ourselves. We are looking for a corpus that contains samples of many speakers producing many vowels (preferably in a less reduced register) that also contains human-validated pitch and formant (F1, F2, and F3) tracks and, if possible, bandwidth information. A corpus that contains more than just vowels is fine, since we can discard sections of the samples that do not suit our needs. If anyone knows of a corpus like this, either freely distributed or requiring a fee, I would like to know how to get ahold of it. I will post a summary of the replies that I receive. Thanks in advance for your time. Scott Drellishak University of Washington Seattle, WA
LL Issue:	15.1895
Date posted:	21-Jun-2004
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