IARPA Babel Georgian Language Pack IARPA-babel404b-v1.0a

<h3>Introduction</h3><br>
<p>IARPA Babel Georgian Language Pack IARPA-babel404b-v1.0a 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 190 hours of Georgian conversational and scripted telephone speech collected in 2014 and 2015 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 Georgian speech in this release represents that spoken in the Eastern and Western dialect regions in Georgia. The gender distribution among speakers is approximately equal; speakers' ages range from 16 years to 73 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 or in 48kHz 24-bit PCM wav format. Transcripts are encoded in UTF-8 using a romanization scheme developed by Appen. 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 these samples:</p><br>
<ul><br>
<li><a href="desc/addenda/LDC2016S12.sph">Audio Sample</a></li><br>
<li><a href="desc/addenda/LDC2016S12.txt">Transcription Sample</a></li><br>
<li><a href="desc/addenda/LDC2016S12.rom.txt">Romanized Transcription Sample</a></li><br>
</ul><br>
<h3>Updates</h3><br>
<p>None at this time.</p></br>
Portions © 2015 U.S. Government
<br>The U.S. Government acquired this data from Appen Pty Ltd, which assigned the copyright to the data to the U.S. Government.