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| Title | NameDat: A Database of English Proper Names Spoken by Native Norwegians |
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| Authors | Line Adde and Torbjørn Svendsen |
| Abstract | This paper describes the design and collection of NameDat, a databasecontaining English proper names spoken by native Norwegians. The database wasdesigned to cover the typical acoustic and phonetic variations that appear whenNorwegians pronounce English names. The intended use of the database isacoustic and lexical modeling of these phonetic variations. The English namesin the database have been enriched with several annotation tiers. The recordednames were selected according to three selection criteria: the familiarity ofthe name, the expected recognition performance and the coverage of non-nativephonemes. The validity of the manual annotations was verified by means of anautomatic recognition experiment of non-native names. The experiment showedthat the use of the manual transcriptions from NameDat yields an increase inrecognition performance over automatically generated transcriptions. |
| Language | Multilinguality |
| Topics | Corpus (creation, annotation, etc.), Speech resource/database, Multilinguality |
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NameDat: A Database of English Proper Names Spoken by Native Norwegians |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{ADDE10.255, author = {Line Adde and Torbjørn Svendsen}, title = {NameDat: A Database of English Proper Names Spoken by Native Norwegians}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)}, year = {2010}, month = {may}, date = {19-21}, address = {Valletta, Malta}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odjik, Stelios Piperidis, Mike Rosner, Daniel Tapias}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {2-9517408-6-7}, language = {english} } |