CSDC - The MoTiV Car-Speech Data Collection
Detlev Langmann, Hartmut R. Pfitzinger, Tobias M. Schneider, Robert Grudszus, Alexander Fischer, Martin Westphan, Ute Jekosch, Martin Westphal, Torsten Crull · 1998
A commmon initiative was created between the industrial partners Philips, Siemens, Bosch, and Volkswagen in the subproject Man-Machine Interaction of the German governmentfunded project "MoTiV" (mobility and transportation in the intermodal traffic) in order to enable comprehensive investigations of voice control in car environments. The partners designed and conducted a database collection for German speech data in different car environments. In total, 35 hours of hands-free multi-channel recorded speech data from about 640 drivers were collected in seven different mid- to upper-class ranged cars. To our knowledge, this effort enables for the first time the investigation of the impact of real circumstances on speaker-independent speech recognition in the car. INTRODUCTION Speech recognition in the car is not only an exciting opportunity for convenient control of car electronics like car stereo, mobile phone, navigation system and some carbody functions, but it can also improve traff...