IARPA Babel Kazakh Language Pack IARPA-babel302b-v1.0a

<h3>Introduction</h3><br>
<p>IARPA Babel Kazakh Language Pack IARPA-babel302b-v1.0a was developed by <a href="http://www.appen.com/">Appen</a> for the IARPA (Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity) <a href="http://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/research-programs/babel">Babel</a> program. It contains approximately 203 hours of Kazakh conversational and scripted telephone speech collected in 2013 and 2014 along with corresponding transcripts.</p><br>
<p>The Babel program focuses on underserved languages and seeks to develop speech recognition technology that can be rapidly applied to any human language to support keyword search performance over large amounts of recorded speech.</p><br>
<h3>Data</h3><br>
<p>The Kazakh speech in this release represents that spoken in the Northeastern and Southern dialect regions of Kazakhstan. The gender distribution among speakers is approximately equal; speakers' ages range from 16 years to 64 years. Calls were made using different telephones (e.g., mobile, landline) from a variety of environments including the street, a home or office, a public place, and inside a vehicle.</p><br>
<p>Audio data is presented as 8kHz 8-bit a-law encoded audio in sphere format and 48kHz 24-bit PCM encoded audio in wav format. Transcripts are encoded in UTF-8. Further information about transcription methodology is contained in the documentation accompanying this release.</p><br>
<p>Evaluation data is available from <a href="http://www.nist.gov/">NIST</a> in support of <a href="http://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/mig/openkws.cfm">OpenKWS</a>.</p><br>
<h3>Samples</h3><br>
<p>Please view this <a href="desc/addenda/LDC2018S13.sph">audio sample</a>, <a href="desc/addenda/LDC2018S13.txt">transcript sample</a>, and <a href="desc/addenda/LDC2018S13.rom.txt">romanized transcript</a> sample.</p><br>
<h3>Updates</h3><br>
<p>None at this time.</p></br>
Portions © 2015 U.S. Government</br>
</br>The U.S. Government acquired this data from Appen Pty Ltd, which assigned the copyright to the data to the U.S. Government.

<h3>简介</h3><br>
<p>IARPA Babel哈萨克语语言包IARPA-babel302b-v1.0a由<a href="http://www.appen.com/">Appen</a>为美国情报高级研究计划局（Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity，IARPA）的Babel项目开发。该数据集包含2013年至2014年间采集的约203小时哈萨克语会话与脚本式电话语音数据，以及对应的转写文本。</p><br>
<p>Babel项目聚焦于低资源语言，旨在研发可快速适配任意人类语言的语音识别技术，以支撑大规模录音语音中的关键词搜索任务。</p><br>
<h3>数据详情</h3><br>
<p>本次发布的哈萨克语语音数据采集自哈萨克斯坦东北部与南部方言区。说话人性别分布大致均衡，年龄跨度为16岁至64岁。通话使用不同类型的电话（如移动电话、固定电话）完成，采集环境涵盖街道、家庭或办公室、公共场所及车辆内部等多种场景。</p><br>
<p>音频数据提供两种格式：8kHz 8位a-law编码的sphere格式音频，以及48kHz 24位脉冲编码调制（Pulse Code Modulation，PCM）编码的WAV格式音频。转写文本采用UTF-8编码。本次发布附带的文档中包含转写方法的详细说明。</p><br>
<p>评估数据可从<a href="http://www.nist.gov/">美国国家标准与技术研究院（National Institute of Standards and Technology，NIST）</a>获取，用于支持开放关键词搜索（OpenKWS）任务。</p><br>
<h3>示例</h3><br>
<p>请查看以下示例：<a href="desc/addenda/LDC2018S13.sph">音频样本</a>、<a href="desc/addenda/LDC2018S13.txt">转写文本样本</a>以及<a href="desc/addenda/LDC2018S13.rom.txt">罗马化转写样本</a>。</p><br>
<h3>更新记录</h3><br>
<p>暂无更新。</p></br>
</br>部分内容 © 2015 美国政府</br>
</br>美国政府从Appen Pty Ltd处获取本数据集，该公司已将数据集的版权转让给美国政府。