CALLFRIEND Mandarin Chinese-Taiwan Dialect
| Item Name: | CALLFRIEND Mandarin Chinese-Taiwan Dialect |
| Author(s): | Alexandra Canavan, George Zipperlen |
| LDC Catalog No.: | LDC96S56 |
| ISBN: | 1-58563-071-3 |
| ISLRN: | 804-964-527-007-8 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.35111/d2qx-n488 |
| Member Year(s): | 1996, 1997 |
| DCMI Type(s): | Sound |
| Sample Type: | 2-channel ulaw |
| Sample Rate: | 8000 |
| Data Source(s): | telephone conversations |
| Project(s): | LID, GALE, EARS |
| Application(s): | language identification |
| Language(s): | Mandarin Chinese |
| Language ID(s): | cmn |
| License(s): |
LDC User Agreement for Non-Members |
| Online Documentation: | LDC96S56 Documents |
| Licensing Instructions: | Subscription & Standard Members, and Non-Members |
| Citation: | Canavan, Alexandra, and George Zipperlen. CALLFRIEND Mandarin Chinese-Taiwan Dialect LDC96S56. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 1996. |
| Related Works: | View |
Introduction
The CALLFRIEND project supported the development of language identification technology.
Data
The corpus consists of 60 unscripted telephone conversations, lasting between 5-30 minutes. The corpus also includes documentation describing speaker information (sex, age, education, callee telephone number) and call information (channel quality, number of speakers).
For each conversation, both the caller and callee are native speakers of Mandarin Chinese from Taiwan. All calls are domestic and were placed inside the continental United States and Canada.
Callers in the "Mainland" and "Taiwan" collections of CALLFRIEND Mandarin were identified primarily on the basis of specific attributes in their speech characteristic of geographic origin.
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