1997 Mandarin Broadcast News Speech (HUB4-NE)
| Item Name: | 1997 Mandarin Broadcast News Speech (HUB4-NE) |
| Author(s): | Shudong Huang, Jing Liu, Xuling Wu, Lei Wu, Yongmin Yan, Zhoakai Qin |
| LDC Catalog No.: | LDC98S73 |
| ISBN: | 1-58563-125-6 |
| ISLRN: | 271-025-922-959-1 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.35111/cw3p-t849 |
| Member Year(s): | 1998 |
| DCMI Type(s): | Sound |
| Sample Type: | 1-channel pcm |
| Sample Rate: | 16000 |
| Data Source(s): | broadcast news |
| Project(s): | Hub4, GALE, EARS |
| Application(s): | speech recognition |
| Language(s): | Mandarin Chinese |
| Language ID(s): | cmn |
| License(s): |
1997 Mandarin Broadcast News Agreement |
| Online Documentation: | LDC98S73 Documents |
| Licensing Instructions: | Subscription & Standard Members, and Non-Members |
| Citation: | Huang, Shudong, et al. 1997 Mandarin Broadcast News Speech (HUB4-NE) LDC98S73. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 1998. |
| Related Works: | View |
Introduction
This collection consists of 30 hours of broadcast news recordings from the following sources: Voice of America (VOA), China Central TV (CCTV) and KAZN-AM, a commercial radio station based in Los Angeles, CA.
Of these three sources, the first two comprise the bulk of the collection and are represented in roughly equal amounts. Only a relatively small sample of KAZN-AM recordings is included, owing to the relatively high proportion of unusable material in that source (e.g., commercials, local traffic reports).
Corresponding transcripts are released as 1997 Mandarin Broadcast News Transcripts (HUB4-NE) LDC98T24.
Data
All recordings were made using a single channel and 16-KHz sample frequency. Most files contain 30 minutes of recordings. There are some larger files consisting of 60 minutes and 120 minutes of programming.
Updates
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