CSLU: 22 Languages Corpus

Introduction This file contains documentation on the CSLU: 22 Languages v 1.2, Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) catalog number LDC2005S26 and ISBN 1-58563-361-5. Produced by Center for Spoken Language Understanding and distributed by the Linguistic Data Consortium, the 22 Languages corpus consists of telephone speech from 21 languages: Eastern Arabic, Cantonese, Czech, Farsi, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Mandarin, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Vietnamese, and English. The corpus contains fixed vocabulary utterances (e.g. days of the week) as well as fluent continuous speech. Each of the 50,191 utterances is verified by a native speaker to determine if the caller followed instructions when answering the prompts. For this release, approximately 19,758 utterances have corresponding orthographic transcriptions in all the above languages except Eastern Arabic, Farsi, Korean, Russian, Italian. Samples For an exampe of this corpus, please listen to these Arabic and English audio samples. Updates and Contact Questions regarding this corpus and about the Center for Spoken Language Understanding should be directed to Jan van Santen. Copyright Portions © 1998-2002 Center for Spoken Language Understanding Oregon Health & Science University, © 2005 Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania