LINGUIST List 19.2308

Sun Jul 20 2008

Software: ELRA Language Resources Catalogue Update 7/08

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        1.    Helene Mazo, ELRA Language Resources Catalogue Update 7/08


Message 1: ELRA Language Resources Catalogue Update 7/08
Date: 19-Jul-2008
From: Helene Mazo <mazoelda.org>
Subject: ELRA Language Resources Catalogue Update 7/08
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ELRA is happy to announce that 4 new Speech Resources and 1 new MultimodalResource are now available in its catalogue.

ELRA-S0276 Swedish EUROM1 (EUROM1_S)EUROM1 is the first really multilingual speech database produced in Europe.Over 60 speakers per language pronounced numbers, sentences, isolated wordsusing close talking microphone. For more information, see:http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1066

ELRA-S0277 SpeechDat Galician Database for the Fixed Telephone NetworkThe SpeechDat Galician Database for the Fixed Telephone Network containsthe recordings of 653 speakers of Galician recorded over the fixedtelephone network. Each speaker uttered around 44 read and spontaneousitems. For more information, see:http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1067

ELRA-S0278 SmartWeb Handheld Corpus (SHC)This corpus contains recordings spoken by 156 speakers in a human-machinequery situation. Users were asked to solve several tasks with a spokenquery system to the WWW using a smart phone as portable device in naturalenvironments (office, hall, restaurant, street). Recorded channels are theBluetooth headset over UMTS (telephone quality), the Bluetooth headset andan additional collar microphone in high quality. See also ELRA-S0279 andELRA-S0280. For more information, see:http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1068

ELRA-S0279 SmartWeb Motorbike Corpus (SMC)This corpus contains recordings spoken by 36 speakers in a human-machinequery situation on a running motor cycle (BMW). Bikers were asked to solveseveral tasks with a spoken query system to the WWW using an integratedsystem connected to a speech server via an UMTS connection. Recordedchannels are the Bluetooth helmet microphone over UMTS (telephone quality),and - partly - the Bluetooth helmet microphone and an additional neckmicrophone in high quality. See also ELRA-S0278 and ELRA-S0280. For moreinformation, see:http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1069

ELRA-S0280 SmartWeb Video Corpus (SVC)This multimodal corpus contains 99 recordings each containing ahuman-human-machine dialogue: one speaker (which is being recorded)interacts with a human partner as well with a dialogue system via a smartphone (SmartWeb system). See also ELRA-S0278 and ELRA-S0279. For moreinformation, see:http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1070

For more information on the catalogue, please contact Valérie Mapelliat mapellielda.org.

Visit our on-line catalogue: http://catalog.elra.info.

Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics