Creation of two children´s speech databases

Author

Miller, James D. ; Lee, Sungbok ; Uchanski, Rosalie M. ; Heidbreder, Arnold F. ; Richman, Barbara B. ; Tadlock, John

Author_Institution

Central Inst. for the Deaf, St. Louis, MO, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1996

fDate

7-10 May 1996

Firstpage

849

Abstract

Two sets of speech recordings were made from children talkers ranging in age from 5 to 18 years. One set was recorded via telephone channels (TEL) and the other using high-fidelity recording equipment (MIC). Special considerations and techniques required for the recording of speech from children are discussed. Also presented are (1) a description of the recording environment including ambient noise levels, (2) the vocabularies used for both sets of recordings, and (3) the distribution of talkers by age and sex. A total of 478 and 436 young talkers (age 5-18 years´ inclusive) were employed for the TEL and MIC recordings, respectively. Finally, speech was also recorded from 59 deaf talkers (age 6-14 years´ inclusive)

Keywords

audio recording; speech processing; speech recognition; children speech databases creation; children talkers; deaf talkers; high-fidelity recording equipment; speech recording; telephone channels; Databases; Deafness; Disk recording; Laboratories; Microwave integrated circuits; Noise level; Permission; Speech; Telephony; Vocabulary;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1996. ICASSP-96. Conference Proceedings., 1996 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

ISSN

1520-6149

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3192-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASSP.1996.543254

Filename

543254