UCLA Variability Speaker Database

<h3>Introduction</h3><br>
<p>UCLA Variability Speaker Database was developed by <a href="http://www.seas.ucla.edu/spapl/index.html">UCLA Speech Processing and Auditory Perception Laboratory</a> and is comprised of approximately 34 hours of English speech and orthographic transcripts.</p><br>
<p>This corpus was designed to sample variability in speaking within individual speakers and across a large number of speakers. Participants took part in six different tasks: vowel sounds, reading sentences, giving instructions, neutral conversation, happy conversation, a phone conversation, annoyed conversation, and responding to a video.</p><br>
<h3>Data</h3><br>
<p>Speakers (101 female, 101 male) were recruited from the UCLA university community and represented a variety of language backgrounds. Speaker metadata is included in the documentation for this release.</p><br>
<p>Audio files are presented as 16kHz, 16-bit single channel, flac compressed wav files.</p><br>
<p>Most speech files have two corresponding Praat TextGrid files: an orthographic sentence/utterance transcription and output from forced alignment.</p><br>
<h3>Samples</h3><br>
<p>Please view the following samples:</p><br>
<ul><br>
<li><a href="desc/addenda/LDC2021S09.flac">Speech Sample (FLAC)</a></li><br>
<li><a href="desc/addenda/LDC2021S09_FAVE.TextGrid">Alignment Sample (TXT)</a></li><br>
<li><a href="desc/addenda/LDC2021S09.TextGrid">Transcript Sample (TXT)</a></li><br>
</ul><br>
<h3>Updates</h3><br>
<p>None at this time.</p></br>
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