Japanese spontaneous speech database with wide regional and age distribution
Tomoko Matsui, Masaki Naito, Harald Singer, Atsushi Nakamura, Yoshinori Sagisaka · 1999
This paper introduces a Japanese spontaneous speech database of 3,771 speakers with wide regional and age distributions. This database is designed to capture Japanese spontaneous speech characteristics and is used to develop a speaker-independent (SI) speech recognition system. This paper describes the data collection and transcription. Moreover, we show preliminary analyses through SI speech recognition experiments with the database.