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

fYear

1990

fDate

3-6 Apr 1990

Firstpage

109

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1990. ICASSP-90., 1990 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Albuquerque, NM

ISSN

1520-6149

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASSP.1990.115550

Filename

115550