JURISDIC: Polish Speech Database for Taking Dictation of Legal Texts

The paper provides an overview of the Polish Speech Database for taking dictation of legal texts, created for the purpose of LVCSR system for Polish. It presents background information about the design of the database and the requirements coming from its future uses. The applied method of the text corpora construction is presented as well as the database structure and recording scenarios. The most important details on the recording conditions and equipment are specified, followed by the description of the assessment methodology of recording quality, and the annotation specification and evaluation. Additionally, the paper contains current statistics from the database and the information about both the ongoing and planned stages of the database development process.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: LREC
• Authors: Grazyna Demenko, Stefan Grocholewski, Katarzyna Klessa, Jerzy Ogórkiewicz, Agnieszka Wagner, Marek Lange, Daniel Sledzinski, Natalia Cylwik
• Keywords: Database, Education, LREC 2008, Polish Speech Database, Text Corpora Construction