Wikipedia Spanish Speech and Transcripts

<h3>Introduction</h3><br>
<p>Wikipedia Spanish Speech and Transcripts consists of approximately 25 hours of Spanish read speech and transcripts. The read text was taken from the Spanish version of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spoken_Wikipedia"> WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia</a>, referred to as <a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiproyecto:Wikipedia_grabada">Wikipedia Grabada</a>. The transcripts were developed for this release.</p><br>
<h3>Data</h3><br>
<p>The audio is comprised of short recordings from Wikipedia articles red by 193 speakers (150 male, 43 female). Audio and transcripts were segmented and transcribed by native Spanish speakers.</p><br>
<p>Audio is presented as 16kHz, 16-bit, single channel flac files. When uncompressed, they produce PCM wav files.</p><br>
<p>Transcripts are contained in a single plain text file encoded as UTF-8. Speaker metadata is also provided.</p><br>
<h3>Samples</h3><br>
<p>Please view the following samples:</p><br>
<ul><br>
<li><a href="desc/addenda/LDC2021S07.f.flac">Female Speech</a></li><br>
<li><a href="desc/addenda/LDC2021S07.f.txt">Female Transcript</a></li><br>
<li><a href="desc/addenda/LDC2021S07.m.flac">Male Speech</a></li><br>
<li><a href="desc/addenda/LDC2021S07.m.txt">Male Transcript</a></li><br>
</ul><br>
<h3>Acknowledgements</h3><br>
<p>The authors thank Alberto Templos Carbajal, Elena Vera and Ang&eacute;lica Guti&eacute;rrez for their support of the social service program "Desarrollo de Tecnolog&iacute;as del Habla" at the Facultad de Ingenier&iacute;a (FI) of the Universidad Nacional Aut&oacute;noma de M&eacute;xico (UNAM) and also thank the social service students for all the hard work.</p><br>
<h3>Updates</h3><br>
<p>None at this time.</p></br>
Portions © 2021 Carlos Daniel Hernández Mena, © 2021 Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania