Magic Data Chinese Mandarin Conversational Speech

<h3>Introduction</h3><br>
<p>Magic Data Chinese Mandarin Conversational Speech was developed by <a href="https://www.magicdatatech.com/">Beijing Magic Data Technology Co., Ltd.</a> and consists of approximately 10 hours of Mandarin conversational speech from 60 speakers. Each conversation was recorded on multiple devices and is presented in multiple forms, resulting in a total of approximately 60 hours of audio with corresponding transcripts.</p><br>
<h3>Data</h3><br>
<p>All participants were native speakers of Mandarin in Mainland China from accent regions across the country. Speakers were paired for conversations on a range of topics, including travel, fitness, games, sports and pets.</p><br>
<p>Speech data was recorded on mobile devices and is presented as 16kHz, 16-bit flac compressed pcm wav. Most files are single channel; however, a stereo version of each conversation is also included.</p><br>
<p>Transcript data is contained in UTF-8 encoded plain text <a href="http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/manual/TextGrid.html">TextGrids</a>. Metadata such as topic, collection date, mobile device and speaker demographic information is found in the documentation accompanying this release.</p><br>
<h3>Samples</h3><br>
<p>Please view this <a href="desc/addenda/LDC2019S23.flac">stereo speech sample</a> and <a href="desc/addenda/LDC2019S23.txt">transcript sample</a>.</p><br>
<h3>Updates</h3><br>
<p>None at this time.</p></br>
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