CALLHOME German Speech

Item Name: CALLHOME German Speech
Author(s): Alexandra Canavan, David Graff, George Zipperlen
LDC Catalog No.: LDC97S43
ISBN: 1-58563-117-5
ISLRN: 439-134-097-495-5
DOI: https://doi.org/10.35111/0gke-fp69
Member Year(s): 1997
DCMI Type(s): Sound
Sample Type: 2-channel ulaw
Sample Rate: 8000
Data Source(s): telephone conversations
Project(s): Hub5-LVCSR
Application(s): speech recognition
Language(s): German
Language ID(s): deu
License(s): LDC User Agreement for Non-Members
Online Documentation: LDC97S43 Documents
Licensing Instructions: Subscription & Standard Members, and Non-Members
Citation: Canavan, Alexandra, David Graff, and George Zipperlen. CALLHOME German Speech LDC97S43. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 1997.
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Introduction

CALLHOME German Speech was developed by the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) and contains approximately 48 hours of speech from 100 unscripted telephone conversations between native German 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 and development data. Calls originated in North America and were placed to locations overseas. 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 (LDC97T15) and an associated lexicon (LDC97L18) are available separately.

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