Dialogs Re-Enacted Across Languages

<h3>Introduction</h3>
<p>Dialogs Re-Enacted Across Languages was developed at the <a href="https://www.utep.edu/">University of Texas at El Paso</a>. It contains approximately 17 hours of conversational speech in English and Spanish by 129 unique bilingual speakers, specifically, short fragments extracted from spontaneous conversations and close re-enactments in the other language by the original speakers, for 3816 pairs of matching utterances.</p>
<h3>Data</h3>
<p>Data was collected in 2022-2023. Participants were recruited from among students at the University of Texas at El Paso which is located on the US-Mexico border. All participants were bilingual speakers of General American English and of Mexico-Texas Border Spanish. Their self-described dialects for English were El Paso and for Spanish, mostly "El Paso/Juarez."</p>
<p>Each speaker pair had a ten minute conversation in one language. From these conversations, various fragments of the conversations were chosen for re-enactment, and the original speakers produced equivalents in the other language. Each re-enactment was vetted for fidelity to the original and naturalness in the target language.</p>
<p>After recording, fragments were mapped to the translated re-enactments using&nbsp;<a href="https://archive.mpi.nl/tla/elan">ELAN</a>, an annotation tool for audio and video recordings.</p>
<p>Metadata about conversations, participants, re-enactments and utterances are included in this release.</p>
<p>The audio data is presented as flac compressed, single channel, 16 kHz, 16-bit linear PCM.</p>