ASpIRE Development and Development Test Sets
| Item Name: | ASpIRE Development and Development Test Sets |
| Author(s): | Linguistic Data Consortium, Appen Pty Ltd |
| LDC Catalog No.: | LDC2017S21 |
| ISBN: | 1-58563-820-X |
| ISLRN: | 025-809-032-700-5 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.35111/5893-bd53 |
| Release Date: | November 17, 2017 |
| Member Year(s): | 2017 |
| DCMI Type(s): | Sound, Text |
| Sample Type: | pcm |
| Sample Rate: | 16000 |
| Data Source(s): | microphone speech, telephone speech |
| Application(s): | speech recognition |
| Language(s): | English |
| Language ID(s): | eng |
| License(s): |
ASpIRE Development and Development Test Sets Agreement (For-Profit) ASpIRE Development and Development Test Sets Agreement (Non-Member) ASpIRE Development and Development Test Sets Agreement (Not-For-Profit) |
| Online Documentation: | LDC2017S21 Documents |
| Licensing Instructions: | Subscription & Standard Members, and Non-Members |
| Citation: | Linguistic Data Consortium, and Appen Pty Ltd. ASpIRE Development and Development Test Sets LDC2017S21. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 2017. |
| Related Works: | View |
Introduction
ASpIRE Development and Development Test Sets was developed for the Automatic Speech recognition In Reverberant Environments (ASpIRE) Challenge sponsored by IARPA (the Intelligent Advanced Research Projects Activity). It contains approximately 226 hours of English speech with transcripts and scoring files.
The ASpIRE challenge asked solvers to develop innovative speech recognition systems that could be trained on conversational telephone speech, and yet work well on far-field microphone data from noisy, reverberant rooms. Participants had the opportunity to evaluate their techniques on a common set of challenging data that included significant room noise and reverberation.
Data
The audio data is a subset of Mixer 6 Speech (LDC2013S03), audio recordings of interviews, transcript readings and conversational telephone speech collected by the Linguistic Data Consortium in 2009 and 2010 from native English speakers local to the Philadelphia area. The transcripts were developed by Appen for the ASpIRE challenge.
Data is divided into development and development test sets.
Audio is presented as single channel, 16kHz 16-bit Signed Integer PCM *.wav files. Transcripts are plain text tdf files. Scoring files are also included.
Samples
Please view this audio sample and transcript sample.
Updates
None at this time.