IARPA Babel Kazakh Language Pack IARPA-babel302b-v1.0a

Item Name: IARPA Babel Kazakh Language Pack IARPA-babel302b-v1.0a
Author(s): Aric Bills, Judith Bishop, Thomas Conners, Anne David, Eyal Dubinski, Jonathan G. Fiscus, Mary Harper, Brook Hefright, Kirill Kozlov, Jennifer Melot, Jessica Ray, Anton Rytting, Josh Phillips, Marle Walter, Wade Shen, Ronnie Silber, Evelyne Tzoukermann
LDC Catalog No.: LDC2018S13
ISBN: 1-58563-859-5
ISLRN: 167-295-654-867-3
DOI: https://doi.org/10.35111/rwmc-nm96
Release Date: September 17, 2018
Member Year(s): 2018
DCMI Type(s): Sound, Text
Sample Type: alaw
Sample Rate: 8000
Data Source(s): telephone conversations
Application(s): speech recognition
Language(s): Kazakh
Language ID(s): kaz
License(s): IARPA Babel Kazakh Agreement (For-Profit)
IARPA Babel Kazakh Agreement (Non-Member)
IARPA Babel Kazakh Agreement (Not-For-Profit)
Online Documentation: LDC2018S13 Documents
Licensing Instructions: Subscription & Standard Members, and Non-Members
Citation: Bills, Aric, et al. IARPA Babel Kazakh Language Pack IARPA-babel302b-v1.0a LDC2018S13. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 2018.
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Introduction

IARPA Babel Kazakh Language Pack IARPA-babel302b-v1.0a was developed by Appen for the IARPA (Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity) Babel program. It contains approximately 203 hours of Kazakh conversational and scripted telephone speech collected in 2013 and 2014 along with corresponding transcripts.

The Babel program focuses on underserved languages and seeks to develop speech recognition technology that can be rapidly applied to any human language to support keyword search performance over large amounts of recorded speech.

Data

The Kazakh speech in this release represents that spoken in the Northeastern and Southern dialect regions of Kazakhstan. The gender distribution among speakers is approximately equal; speakers' ages range from 16 years to 64 years. Calls were made using different telephones (e.g., mobile, landline) from a variety of environments including the street, a home or office, a public place, and inside a vehicle.

Audio data is presented as 8kHz 8-bit a-law encoded audio in sphere format and 48kHz 24-bit PCM encoded audio in wav format. Transcripts are encoded in UTF-8. Further information about transcription methodology is contained in the documentation accompanying this release.

Evaluation data is available from NIST in support of OpenKWS.

Samples

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