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| Title | Sense Meets Nonsense - Sense Meets Nonsense - a dual-layer Danish speech corpus for perception studies |
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| Authors | Thomas Ulrich Christiansen and Peter Juel Henrichsen |
| Abstract | In this paper, we present the newly established Danish speech corpus PiTu. The corpus consists of recordings of 28 native Danish talkers (14 female and 14 male) each reproducing (i) a series of nonsense syllables, and (ii) a set of authentic natural language sentences. The speech corpus is tailored for investigating the relationship between early stages of the speech perceptual process and later stages. We present our considerations involved in preparing the experimental set-up, producing the anechoic recordings, compiling the data, and exploring the materials in linguistic research. We report on a small pilot experiment demonstrating how PiTu and similar speech corpora can be used in studies of prosody as a function of semantic content. The experiment addresses the issue of whether the governing principles of Danish prosody assignment is mainly talker-specific or mainly content-typical (under the specific experimental conditions). The corpus is available in its entirety for download at http://amtoolbox.sourceforge.net/pitu/. |
| Topics | Corpus (creation, annotation, etc.), Language modelling, Cognitive methods |
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Sense Meets Nonsense - Sense Meets Nonsense - a dual-layer Danish speech corpus for perception studies |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{CHRISTIANSEN12.330, author = {Thomas Ulrich Christiansen and Peter Juel Henrichsen}, title = {Sense Meets Nonsense - Sense Meets Nonsense - a dual-layer Danish speech corpus for perception studies}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)}, year = {2012}, month = {may}, date = {23-25}, address = {Istanbul, Turkey}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair) and Khalid Choukri and Thierry Declerck and Mehmet Uğur Doğan and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {978-2-9517408-7-7}, language = {english} } |