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RUNDKAST: an Annotated Norwegian Broadcast News Speech Corpus

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RUNDKAST: an Annotated Norwegian Broadcast News Speech Corpus
This paper describes the Norwegian broadcast news speech corpus RUNDKAST. The corpus contains recordings of approximately 77 hours of broadcast news shows from the Norwegian broadcasting company NRK. The corpus covers both read and spontaneous speech as well as spontaneous dialogues and multipart discussions, including frequent occurrences of non-speech material (e.g. music, jingles). The recordings have large variations in speaking styles, dialect use and recording/transmission quality. RUNDKAST has been annotated for research in speech technology. The entire corpus has been manually segmented and transcribed using hierarchical levels. A subset of one hour of read and spontaneous speech from 10 different speakers has been manually annotated using broad phonetic labels. We provide a description of the database content, the annotation tools and strategies, and the conventions used for the different levels of annotation. A corpus of this kind has up to this point not been available for ...
Ingunn Amdal, Ole Morten Strand, Jørn Almbe
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Updated 29 Oct 2010
Type Conference
Year 2008
Where LREC
Authors Ingunn Amdal, Ole Morten Strand, Jørn Almberg, Torbjørn Svendsen
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