Title :
NTIMIT: a phonetically balanced, continuous speech, telephone bandwidth speech database
Author :
Jankowski, Charles ; Kalyanswamy, Ashok ; Basson, Sara ; Spitz, Judith
Author_Institution :
NYNEX Sci. & Technol. Center, White Plains, NY, USA
Abstract :
The creation of the network TIMIT (NTIMIT) database, which is the result of transmitting the TIMIT database over the telephone network, is described. A brief description of the TIMIT database is given, including characteristics useful for speech analysis and recognition. The hardware and software required for the transmission of the database is described. The geographic distribution of the TIMIT utterances is described, followed by information regarding calibration signals used to readily determine the effect of the transmission setup and the distortions introduced by the telephone network
Keywords :
database management systems; speech analysis and processing; speech recognition; telecommunications computing; American English; TIMIT database; calibration signals; characteristics useful for speech analysis; continuous speech database; distortions; geographic distribution; network TIMIT; phonetically balanced speech database; telephone bandwidth speech database; Acoustic distortion; Algorithm design and analysis; Bandwidth; Calibration; Character recognition; Databases; Distortion; Hardware; Mouth; Speech analysis; Speech enhancement; Speech recognition; Telephone sets; Telephony;
Conference_Titel :
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1990. ICASSP-90., 1990 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Albuquerque, NM
DOI :
10.1109/ICASSP.1990.115550
