CSR-I (WSJ0) Sennheiser

Item Name: CSR-I (WSJ0) Sennheiser
Author(s): John S. Garofolo, David Graff, Doug Paul, David Pallett
LDC Catalog No.: LDC93S6B
ISBN: 1-58563-007-1
ISLRN: 393-204-041-392-1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.35111/ap42-7n83
Member Year(s): 1993, 1996
DCMI Type(s): Sound
Sample Type: 1-channel pcm compressed
Sample Rate: 16000
Data Source(s): microphone speech
Project(s): DARPA-CSR
Application(s): speech recognition
Language(s): English
Language ID(s): eng
License(s): LDC User Agreement for Non-Members
Online Documentation: LDC93S6B Documents
Licensing Instructions: Subscription & Standard Members, and Non-Members
Citation: Garofolo, John S., et al. CSR-I (WSJ0) Sennheiser LDC93S6B. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 1993.
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LDC93S6A - Complete CSR-I corpus LDC93S6B - CSR-I Sennheiser speech LDC93S6C - CSR-I other speech

During 1991, the DARPA Spoken Language Program initiated efforts to build a new corpus to support research on large-vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (CSR) systems.

The first two CSR Corpora consist primarily of read speech with texts drawn from a machine-readable corpus of Wall Street Journal news text and are thus often known as WSJ0 and WSJ1. (Later sections of the CSR set of corpora, however, will consist of read texts from other sources of North American business news and eventually from other news domains).

The texts to be read were selected to fall within either a 5,000-word or a 20,000-word subset of the WSJ text corpus. (See the documentation for details). Some spontaneous dictation is included in addition to the read speech. The dictation portion was collected using journalists who dictated hypothetical news articles. This amounts to approximately 70 hours of speech.

Two microphones are used throughout: a close-talking Sennheiser HMD414 and a secondary microphone, which may vary. The corpora are thus offered in three configurations: the speech from the Sennheiser, the speech from the other microphone and the speech from both; all three sets include all transcriptions, tests, documentation, etc.

In general, transcriptions of the speech, test data from ARPA evaluations, scores achieved by various speech recognition systems and software used in scoring are included on separate discs from the waveform data.

Please note this corpus has been updated from its original disc release to a web download, some of the documentation may still reflect its original disc state. However all data is still present.

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