A Corpus of Mandarin Pronunciation by Uyghur College Students

This paper introduces the construction process and core content of the Mandarin pronunciation corpus of Uyghur college students. The corpus takes 48 Uyghur college students (24 males and 24 females) from southern Xinjiang as speakers, and selects 2 Han students (1 male and 1 female) as references for standard Mandarin pronunciation. Based on the “Outline for Putonghua Proficiency Test”, it selects experimental materials, systematically covering 39 finals, 21 initials, as well as single-character tones and double-character tones of Mandarin. Speech data were collected in a standardized environment using professional recording equipment. After segmentation and denoising, 14,550 audio files (with a total duration of 146 minutes and a data volume of 595.7MB) and corresponding text files were formed.