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Re: TIMIT speech corpora available

Vito,

Looks like a great resource to have!  Could you send me the URL?

Thanks,
Scott Austin


>wear-hard--
>
>I picked up a copy of the TIMIT Acoustic-Phonetic Continuous Speech
>Corpus for a work-related project, and since it's okay for me to
>redistribute it, I thought I'd offer it to list members.  If you're
>training speech recognition systems, probably no better place to
>start.  :)
>
>"The TIMIT corpus of read speech is designed to provide speech data
>for acoustic-phonetic studies and for the development and evaluation
>of automatic speech recognition systems.  TIMIT contains broadband
>recordings of 630 speakers of 8 major dialects of American English,
>each reading 10 phonetically rich sentences.  The TIMIT corpus
>includes time-aligned orthographic, phonetic and word transcriptions
>as well as a 16-bit, 16kHz speech waveform file for each utterance."
>
>It's only like ~US$100 from NTIS, but if you've got the bandwidth to
>rsync ~613MB, I'll give you a URL for it.  Just remember that although
>it's redistributable, it's still copyrighted, so you need to cite its
>use in papers, etc.
>
>Thanks,
>--Vito
>
>
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