Xi'an Guanzhong Object Naming
| Item Name: | Xi'an Guanzhong Object Naming |
| Author(s): | Christopher Cieri, Juhong Zhan, Yue Jiang, Mark Liberman, Jiahong Yuan, Yiya Chen, Odette Scharenborg |
| LDC Catalog No.: | LDC2022S09 |
| ISBN: | 1-58563-996-6 |
| ISLRN: | 424-313-360-634-8 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.35111/qef4-cz65 |
| Release Date: | September 15, 2022 |
| Member Year(s): | 2022 |
| DCMI Type(s): | Sound, Text |
| Sample Type: | flac |
| Sample Rate: | 16000 |
| Data Source(s): | microphone speech |
| Project(s): | NIEUW |
| Application(s): | language documentation, speech recognition |
| Language(s): | Mandarin Chinese |
| Language ID(s): | cmn |
| License(s): |
LDC User Agreement for Non-Members |
| Online Documentation: | LDC2022S09 Documents |
| Licensing Instructions: | Subscription & Standard Members, and Non-Members |
| Citation: | Cieri, Christopher, et al. Xi'an Guanzhong Object Naming LDC2022S09. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 2022. |
Introduction
Xi'an Guanzhong Object Naming is comprised of approximately 15 hours of audio recordings from speakers of the Guanzhong dialect of Mandarin Chinese living in or near Xi'an in Shaangxi Province (China) naming objects that appeared in colored line drawings. The corpus was developed to support traditional and computer aided language documentation.
Data
This collection was conducted from February-May 2021 using LanguageArc, a citizen science portal developed by the Linguistic Data Consortium, from a closed volunteer community. Speakers were presented with images selected from the MultiPic dataset and were asked to record themselves naming the objects in the images.
The task yielded 34,729 audio recordings. The data is organized into 622 directories according to the image presented. Each directory contains on average 42 recordings sampled at 16kHz, 16bit, in single channel, FLAC encoded files.
Samples
Please view the following sample. Note that due to the very short length of the audio files in this corpus, some browsers and applications may have difficulty playing the file.
Updates
None at this time.