IARPA Babel Zulu Language Pack IARPA-babel206b-v0.1e

<h3>Introduction</h3><br>
<p>IARPA Babel Zulu Language Pack IARPA-babel206b-v0.1e 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 211 hours of Zulu conversational and scripted telephone speech collected in 2012 and 2013 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 Zulu speech in this release represents that spoken in the KZN (KwaZulu-Natal)-urban dialect region of South Africa. The gender distribution among speakers is approximately equal; speakers' ages range from 16 years to 70 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/LDC2017S19.sph">audio sample</a>&nbsp;and <a href="desc/addenda/LDC2017S19.txt">transcript sample</a>.</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祖鲁语语言包IARPA-babel206b-v0.1e由<a href="http://www.appen.com/">Appen</a>为IARPA（Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity，美国情报高级研究项目活动）的<a href="http://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/research-programs/babel">Babel</a>项目开发。该数据集包含2012年至2013年间采集的约211小时祖鲁语会话式与脚本式电话语音数据，以及对应的转写文本。</p><br><p>Babel项目聚焦服务不足的语言，旨在开发可快速适配任意人类语言的语音识别技术，以支持大规模录制语音中的关键词搜索任务。</p><br><h3>数据</h3><br><p>本发布包中的祖鲁语语音数据采自南非夸祖鲁-纳塔尔（KZN）城市方言区。说话者的性别分布大致均衡，年龄跨度为16岁至70岁。通话使用了不同类型的电话（如移动电话、固定电话），采集环境涵盖街道、家庭或办公室、公共场所以及车内等多种场景。</p><br><p>音频数据提供两种格式：sphere格式的8kHz 8位a-law编码音频，以及wav格式的48kHz 24位脉冲编码调制（PCM, Pulse Code Modulation）编码音频。转写文本采用UTF-8编码。有关转写方法的详细信息，请参见本发布包附带的文档。</p><br><p>评估数据可从<a href="http://www.nist.gov/">NIST（National Institute of Standards and Technology，美国国家标准与技术研究院）</a>获取，用于支持<a href="http://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/mig/openkws.cfm">OpenKWS</a>任务。</p><br><h3>示例</h3><br><p>请查看此<a href="desc/addenda/LDC2017S19.sph">音频示例</a>以及<a href="desc/addenda/LDC2017S19.txt">转写文本示例</a>。</p><br><h3>更新记录</h3><br><p>暂无更新记录。</p></br>Portions © 2015 U.S. Government,<br></br>美国政府从Appen Pty Ltd处获取本数据集，该公司已将本数据集的版权转让予美国政府。