SpeechDat(E) - Eastern European Telephone Speech Databases
Petr Pollák, Jaň Černocký, Jérôme Boudy, Khalid Choukri, Henk van den Heuvel, Klára Vicsi, A. Virag, Rainer Siemund, Wojciech Majewski, Julie Diane Sadowski, Piotr Staroniewicz, Herbert S. Tropf, Julia Kochanina, A. Ostrouchov, Milan Rusko, Marián Trnka · 2000
This paper describes the creation of five new telephony speech databases for Central and Eastern European lanuages within the Speech-Dat(E) project. The 5 languages concerned are Czech, Polish, Slovak, Hungarian, and Russian. The databases follow SpeechDat-II specifications with some language specific adaptation. The present paper describes the differences between SpeechDat(E) and earlier SpeechDat projects with ragrd to databse items such as generation of phonetically rich sentences generation, speaker recruitement, etc. The collections of the DBs are in the finishing phase. The DBs will be validated by SPEX and will be distributed by ELRA. 1.