Mixer 6 - CHiME 8 Transcribed Calls and Interviews

Mixer 6 - CHiME 8 Transcribed Calls and Interviews was developed for the 7th and 8th CHiME (Computational Hearing in Multisource Environments) challenges. It contains 80 hours of English interviews and telephone speech from Mixer 6 Speech (LDC2013S03) with transcripts developed for the CHiME challenges and divided into training, development and test sets. This data was used in CHiME 7 Task 1 and both of which focused on transcription and segmentation across varied recording conditions such as interviews, meetings, and dinner parties, with an emphasis on generalization across recording device types and array topologies. Mixer 6 Speech was developed by the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) and comprises 15,863 hours of audio recordings of interviews, transcript readings and conversational telephone speech involving 594 distinct native English speakers recorded over 14 channels. This material was collected by LDC in 2009 and 2010 as part of the Mixer project, specifically phase 6, the focus of which was on native American English speakers local to the Philadelphia area.