CSLU: Spoltech Brazilian Portuguese Version 1.0
| Item Name: | CSLU: Spoltech Brazilian Portuguese Version 1.0 |
| Author(s): | Mauricio C. Schramm, Luis Felipe R. Freitas, Adriano Zanuz, Dante Barone |
| LDC Catalog No.: | LDC2006S16 |
| ISBN: | 1-58563-383-6 |
| ISLRN: | 386-396-917-783-5 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.35111/kkda-b418 |
| Release Date: | April 17, 2006 |
| Member Year(s): | 2006 |
| DCMI Type(s): | Sound, Text |
| Sample Type: | 1-channel pcm |
| Sample Rate: | 44100 |
| Data Source(s): | microphone speech |
| Application(s): | language identification, language modeling, language teaching, machine learning, machine translation |
| Language(s): | Portuguese |
| Language ID(s): | por |
| License(s): |
CSLU Agreement |
| Online Documentation: | LDC2006S16 Documents |
| Licensing Instructions: | Subscription & Standard Members, and Non-Members |
| Citation: | Schramm, Mauricio C., et al. CSLU: Spoltech Brazilian Portuguese Version 1.0 LDC2006S16. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 2006. |
Introduction
CSLU: Spoltech Brazilian Portuguese Version 1.0 was developed by the Center for Spoken Language Understanding (CSLU) and contains 5 hours of Portuguese microphone speech with phonetic and orthographic transcriptions. The utterances consist of both read speech (for phonetic coverage) and responses to questions (for spontaneous speech).
The corpus contains 480 speakers from a variety of regions in Brazil and 8,207 separate utterances. A total of 2,540 utterances have been transcribed at the word level (without time alignments), and 5,479 utterances have been transcribed at the phoneme level (with time alignments). Protocol design, recording, and transcription were performed by the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul and the Universidade de Caxias do Sul.
Data
The data has been recorded at 44.1 kHz (mono, 16-bit) and stored in RIFF format. The recording was conducted with a direct connection from the microphone to the sound card. The sound card was SoundBlaster-compatible.
For the prompted sentences, the sentence was hidden from view when recording began, so that the speaker might utter the sentence more naturally. Verification of the recording quality was performed immediately after each utterance recording; the data-collection software allowed the speaker to re-record utterances in case the recording was not of sufficient quality. The acoustic environment was not controlled, in order to allow for background conditions that would occur in application environments.
Samples
For an example of the data in this corpus, please listen to this audio sample (WAV) and examine its transcript (TXT).
Updates
None at this time.