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Multi-Language Conversational Telephone Speech 2011 -- Slavic Group

Item Name:	Multi-Language Conversational Telephone Speech 2011 -- Slavic Group
Author(s):	Karen Jones, David Graff, Kevin Walker, Stephanie Strassel
LDC Catalog No.:	LDC2016S11
ISBN:	1-58563-775-0
ISLRN:	012-353-003-824-5
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.35111/jv6z-9948
Release Date:	November 15, 2016
Member Year(s):	2016
DCMI Type(s):	Sound
Sample Type:	pcm
Sample Rate:	8000
Data Source(s):	telephone conversations
Project(s):	NIST LRE
Application(s):	language identification
Language(s):	Polish, Russian, Ukrainian
Language ID(s):	pol, rus, ukr
License(s):	LDC User Agreement for Non-Members
Online Documentation:	LDC2016S11 Documents
Licensing Instructions:	Subscription & Standard Members, and Non-Members
Citation:	Jones, Karen, et al. Multi-Language Conversational Telephone Speech 2011 -- Slavic Group LDC2016S11. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 2016.
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Introduction

Multi-Language Conversational Telephone Speech 2011 -- Slavic Group was developed by the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) and is comprised of approximately 60 hours of telephone speech in each of three distinct Slavic languages: Polish, Russian and Ukrainian.

The data were collected primarily to support research and technology evaluation in automatic language identification, and portions of these telephone calls were used in the NIST 2011 Language Recognition Evaluation (LRE). LRE 2011 focused on language pair discrimination for 24 languages/dialects, some of which could be considered mutually intelligible or closely related.

LDC has released the following as part of the Multi-Language Conversational Telephone Speech 2011 series:

Turkish (LDC2017S09)
South Asian (LDC2017S14)
Central Asian (LDC2018S03)
Central European (LDC2018S08)
Spanish (LDC2018S12)
Arabic (LDC2019S02)
English (LDC2019S06)

Data

Participants were recruited by native speakers who contacted acquaintances in their social network. Those native speakers made one call, up to 15 minutes, to each acquaintance. The data was collected using LDC's telephone collection infrastructure, comprised of three computer telephony systems. Human auditors labeled calls for callee gender, dialect type and noise. Demographic information about the participants was not collected.

All audio data are presented in FLAC-compressed MS-WAV (RIFF) file format (*.flac); when uncompressed, each file is 2 channels, recorded at 8000 samples/second with samples stored as 16-bit signed integers, representing a lossless conversion from the original mu-law sample data as captured digitally from the public telephone network. The following table summarizes the total number of calls, total number of hours of recorded audio, and the total size of compressed data:

group	lng	#calls	#hours	#MB
slavic	pol	124	28.3	1457
slavic	rus	71	13.1	577
slavic	ukr	89	19.0	932
slavic	Totals	284	60.4	2966

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