AIDA Ukrainian Broadcast and Telephone Speech Audio and Transcripts

AIDA Ukrainian Broadcast and Telephone Speech Audio and Transcripts was developed by the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) and is comprised of approximately 156 hours of Ukrainian conversational telephone speech (CTS) and broadcast news audio (BN) with 1.2 million words of corresponding orthographic transcripts. The broadcast recordings and transcripts were produced to support the DARPA AIDA (Active Interpretation of Disparate Alternatives) program which aimed to develop a multi-hypothesis semantic engine to generate explicit alternative interpretations of events, situations and trends from a variety of unstructured sources. LDC supported AIDA by collecting, creating and annotating multimodal linguistic resources in multiple languages. The telephone speech audio recordings were collected to support the NIST 2011 Language Recognition Evaluation which focused on pair discrimination for 24 languages/dialects. These recording are also contained in Multi-Language Conversational Telephone Speech 2011 – Slavic Group LDC2016S11. The goal of NIST’s LRE series is to establish the baseline of current performance capability for language recognition of conversational telephone speech and to lay the groundwork for further research efforts in the field.