Subject: Re: [AUDITORY] Phoneme database From: Kamil Adiloglu <kamil.adiloglu@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 16:10:48 +0100 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>--001a1133326ad0349504ea0adadf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Daniel, thank you very much for your e-mail. I checked the website. They offer a lot of speech databases for many different purposes. Unfortunately, I don't have a budget to buy a database. I am looking for a free database at least free for research purposes. Best, Kamil On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Daniel Shub <Daniel.Shub@xxxxxxxx>wrote: > The Linguistic Data Consortium at UPenn https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/ has a > huge inventory of speech databases. I think the Articulation Index (catal= og > number LCD2005S22 and ISBN 1-58563-346-1) provides material that would me= et > both of your aims. It has 20 speakers with a set of approximately 2000 > syllables in common to all speakers and approximately 20 unique syllables > spoken by only a single speaker. The syllables were spoken both in the > middle of a carrier phrase and in =93isolation=94 (i.e., after a short pa= use at > the end of the carrier phrase). The recordings were manually segmented t= o > isolate the target syllable. There is also approximately 10 minute of > conversational speech for each talker.**** > > ** ** > > *From:* AUDITORY - Research in Auditory Perception [mailto: > AUDITORY@xxxxxxxx *On Behalf Of *Kamil Adiloglu > *Sent:* Thursday, October 31, 2013 8:40 AM > *To:* AUDITORY@xxxxxxxx > *Subject:* [AUDITORY] Phoneme database**** > > ** ** > > Dear list,**** > > I am looking for a phoneme database to train a supervised machine learnin= g > method for ASR. There is the well-known TIMIT database, which contains th= e > phoneme labels for each recording, but an isolated phoneme database would > be much better for me. I also found some websites mentioning the Oxford > Acoustic Phonetic Database or the University of South Florida Audiovisual > Phone Database, but no clue about how to find the databases themselves. A= ny > help would be highly appreciated.**** > > Best Regards**** > > Kamil Adiloglu**** > > This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and > may contain confidential information. If you have received this message i= n > error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do > not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in > any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this > email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingha= m. > > This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an > attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your > computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email > communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as > permitted by UK legislation. > > --001a1133326ad0349504ea0adadf Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr"><div><div>Dear Daniel,<br></div>thank you very much for yo= ur e-mail. I checked the website. They offer a lot of speech databases for = many different purposes. Unfortunately, I don't have a budget to buy a = database. I am looking for a free database at least free for research purpo= ses.<br> <br></div>Best,<br>Kamil<br><br></div><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br><br><d= iv class=3D"gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Daniel Shub <spa= n dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto:Daniel.Shub@xxxxxxxx" target=3D= "_blank">Daniel.Shub@xxxxxxxx</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1p= x #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link=3D"blue" vlink=3D"purple" lang=3D"= EN-US"><div><p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span style=3D"font-size:11.0pt;font-fam= ily:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">The Linguisti= c Data Consortium at UPenn <a href=3D"https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/" target=3D= "_blank">https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/</a> has a huge inventory of speech data= bases. I think the Articulation Index (catalog number LCD2005S22 and ISBN 1= -58563-346-1) provides material that would meet both of your aims. It has 2= 0 speakers with a set of approximately 2000 syllables in common to all spea= kers and approximately 20 unique syllables spoken by only a single speaker.= The syllables were spoken both in the middle of a carrier phrase and in = =93isolation=94 (i.e., after a short pause at the end of the carrier phrase= ). The recordings were =A0manually segmented to isolate the target syllable= . There is also approximately 10 minute of conversational speech for each t= alker.<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span style=3D"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Ca= libri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u>=A0<u></u></span><= /p><div style=3D"border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0= in 4.0pt"> <div><div style=3D"border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt= 0in 0in 0in"><p class=3D"MsoNormal"><b><span style=3D"font-size:10.0pt;fon= t-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span s= tyle=3D"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif&qu= ot;"> AUDITORY - Research in Auditory Perception [mailto:<a href=3D"mailto:= AUDITORY@xxxxxxxx" target=3D"_blank">AUDITORY@xxxxxxxx</a>] <= b>On Behalf Of </b>Kamil Adiloglu<br> <b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 31, 2013 8:40 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href=3D"ma= ilto:AUDITORY@xxxxxxxx" target=3D"_blank">AUDITORY@xxxxxxxx</= a><br><b>Subject:</b> [AUDITORY] Phoneme database<u></u><u></u></span></p><= /div> </div><p class=3D"MsoNormal"><u></u>=A0<u></u></p><div><div><div><div><p cl= ass=3D"MsoNormal">Dear list,<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class=3D"MsoNormal" = style=3D"margin-bottom:12.0pt">I am looking for a phoneme database to train= a supervised machine learning method for ASR. There is the well-known TIMI= T database, which contains the phoneme labels for each recording, but an is= olated phoneme database would be much better for me. I also found some webs= ites mentioning=A0 the Oxford Acoustic Phonetic Database or the University = of South Florida Audiovisual Phone Database, but no clue about how to find = the databases themselves. Any help would be highly appreciated.<u></u><u></= u></p> </div><p class=3D"MsoNormal">Best Regards<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class= =3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin-bottom:12.0pt">Kamil Adiloglu<u></u><u></u><= /p></div></div></div> <br><p>This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addresse= e and may contain confidential information. If you have received this messa= ge in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it.=A0=A0 Pl= ease do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message= or in any attachment.=A0 Any views or opinions expressed by the author of = this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottin= gham.</p> <p>This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachm= ent may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer sys= tem, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with = the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislatio= n.</p> <br></div></blockquote></div><br></div> --001a1133326ad0349504ea0adadf--