CSLU: 22 Languages Corpus
| Item Name: | CSLU: 22 Languages Corpus |
| Author(s): | T Lander |
| LDC Catalog No.: | LDC2005S26 |
| ISBN: | 1-58563-356-9 |
| Release Date: | November 29, 2005 |
| Member Year(s): | 2005 |
| DCMI Type(s): | Sound |
| Sample Type: | ulaw |
| Sample Rate: | 8000 |
| Data Source(s): | telephone speech |
| Application(s): | language teaching, language modeling, language identification, machine translation |
| Language(s): | Yue Chinese, Vietnamese, Tamil, Swedish, Russian, Portuguese, Polish, Korean, Japanese, Indonesian, Hindi, English, German, Arabic, Swahili, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, Italian, Hungarian, Persian, Czech |
| Language ID(s): | yue, vie, tam, swe, rus, por, pol, kor, jpn, ind, hin, eng, deu, ara, swa, spa, cmn, ita, hun, fas, ces |
| License(s): |
CSLU Agreement |
| Online Documentation: | LDC2005S26 Documents |
| Licensing Instructions: | Subscription & Standard Members, and Non-Members |
| Citation: | Lander, T. CSLU: 22 Languages Corpus LDC2005S26. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 2005. |
| Related Works: | View |
Introduction
This file contains documentation on the CSLU: 22 Languages v 1.2, Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) catalog number LDC2005S26 and ISBN 1-58563-361-5.
Produced by Center for Spoken Language Understanding and distributed by the Linguistic Data Consortium, the 22 Languages corpus consists of telephone speech from 21 languages: Eastern Arabic, Cantonese, Czech, Farsi, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Mandarin, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Vietnamese, and English. The corpus contains fixed vocabulary utterances (e.g. days of the week) as well as fluent continuous speech. Each of the 50,191 utterances is verified by a native speaker to determine if the caller followed instructions when answering the prompts. For this release, approximately 19,758 utterances have corresponding orthographic transcriptions in all the above languages except Eastern Arabic, Farsi, Korean, Russian, Italian.
Samples
For an exampe of this corpus, please listen to these Arabic and English audio samples.
Updates and Contact
Questions regarding this corpus and about the Center for Spoken Language Understanding should be directed to Jan van Santen.