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| Title | A Database of Age and Gender Annotated Telephone Speech |
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| Authors | Felix Burkhardt, Martin Eckert, Wiebke Johannsen and Joachim Stegmann |
| Abstract | This article describes an age-annotated database of German telephone speech.All in all 47 hours of prompted and free text was recorded, uttered by 954 paidparticipants in a style typical for automated voiceservices. The participants were selected based on an equal distribution ofmales and females within four age cluster groups; children,youth, adults and seniors. Within the children, gender is not distinguished,because it doesn’t have a strong enough effect on the voice.The textual content was designed to be typical for automated voice services andconsists mainly of short commands, single words andnumbers.An additional database consists of 659 speakers (368 female and 291 male) thatcalled an automated voice portal server and answeredfreely on one of the two questions “What is your favourite dish?” and“What would you take to an island?” (island set, 422 speakers).This data might be used for out-of domain testing.The data will be used to tune an age-detecting automated voice service andmight be released to research institutes under controlledconditions as part of an open age and gender detection challenge. |
| Language | Metadata |
| Topics | Speech resource/database, Corpus (creation, annotation, etc.), Metadata |
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A Database of Age and Gender Annotated Telephone Speech |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{BURKHARDT10.262, author = {Felix Burkhardt, Martin Eckert, Wiebke Johannsen and Joachim Stegmann}, title = {A Database of Age and Gender Annotated Telephone Speech}, 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} } |