Wikipedia Spanish Speech and Transcripts

LDC2021S07

Introduction

Wikipedia Spanish Speech and Transcripts, Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) Catalog Number LDC2021S07 and ISBN 1-58563-972-9, consists of approximately 25 hours of Spanish read speech and transcripts. The read text was taken from the Spanish version of WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia, referred to as Wikipedia Grabada. The transcripts were developed for this release.

Data

The audio is comprised of short recordings from Wikipedia articles red by 193 speakers (150 male, 43 female). Audio and transcripts were segmented and transcribed by native Spanish speakers.

Audio is presented as 16kHz, 16-bit, single channel flac files. When uncompressed, they produce PCM wav files.

Transcripts are contained in a single plain text file encoded as UTF-8. Speaker metadata is also provided.

Directory Structure

Please see file.tbl for a complete file list as well as checksums for this publication.

Acknowledgements

The authors thank Alberto Templos Carbajal, Elena Vera and Angélica Gutiérrez for their support of the social service program "Desarrollo de Tecnologías del Habla" at the Facultad de Ingeniería (FI) of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and also thank the social service students for all the hard work.

Updates

Additional information, updates, bug fixes may be available in the LDC catalog entry for this corpus at LDC2021S07.

Content Copyright

Portions © 2021 Carlos Daniel Hernández Mena, © 2021 Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania