CALLHOME American English Speech
| Item Name: | CALLHOME American English Speech |
| Author(s): | Alexandra Canavan, David Graff, George Zipperlen |
| LDC Catalog No.: | LDC97S42 |
| ISBN: | 1-58563-111-6 |
| ISLRN: | 952-976-147-406-5 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.35111/exq3-x930 |
| Member Year(s): | 1997 |
| DCMI Type(s): | Sound |
| Sample Type: | 2-channel ulaw |
| Sample Rate: | 8000 |
| Data Source(s): | telephone conversations |
| Project(s): | EARS, GALE, Hub5-LVCSR |
| Application(s): | speech recognition |
| Language(s): | English |
| Language ID(s): | eng |
| License(s): |
LDC User Agreement for Non-Members |
| Online Documentation: | LDC97S42 Documents |
| Licensing Instructions: | Subscription & Standard Members, and Non-Members |
| Citation: | Canavan, Alexandra, David Graff, and George Zipperlen. CALLHOME American English Speech LDC97S42. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 1997. |
| Related Works: | View |
Introduction
CALLHOME American English Speech was developed by the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) and contains approximately 56 hours of speech from 120 unscripted telephone conversations between native American English speakers.
The CALLHOME series consists of telephone conversations and transcripts developed by LDC and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in support of research in speaker identification, language identification and related technologies. Languages in the series include American English, Egyptian Arabic, German, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, and Spanish.
Data
The conversational telephone speech in this release represents training, development and a subset of evaluation data. Most participants called family members or close friends. Participants spoke on topics of their choice in a single telephone call lasting up to 30 minutes.
Audio files are presented as 8 kHz u-law SPHERE files compressed with SHORTEN.
Corresponding transcripts (LDC97T14) and an associated lexicon (LDC97L20) are available separately.
Samples
Please listen to this audio sample.
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