WSJCAM0 Corpus and Recording Description

Jeroen Fransen, Dave Pye, Tony Robinson,
Phil Woodland and Steve Young

Technical report: CUED/F-INFENG/TR.192

Cambridge University Engineering Department (CUED) Speech Group
Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, UK

September 2, 1994

• Introduction
• Recorded Material
• Recording Room
• Recording Equipment
• Speakers
  • Speaker Partitions for Evaluation and Development Test
• Recording Session
• Pronunciation Dictionary
• Data Formats
  • File Naming Formats
  • The NIST file format: waveforms (.wv1, .wv2)
    • Example Header
  • Detailed Orthographic Transcription (.dot):
  • Prompting Text (.ptx):
  • Phone and Word Alignments (.phn, .wrd)
• Directory Structure
• WSJCAM0 Detailed Orthographic Transcription (.dot) Specification
  • Orthography
    • Hyphenated words
    • Misquotations
    • Mispronunciations
    • False Starts and Spoken Word Fragments
    • Prosodic Markings
    • Descriptive Markings of Speech and Non-Speech Events
    • Descriptor Placement and Concurrent Events
    • Bad Recording
    • Waveform Truncation
    • Utterance Identification
• References
  • Acknowledgements
  • Appendix A: Adaptation Sentences for Speaker c3j
  • Appendix B: Technical Specifications of Recording Equipment
    • The Far-field Desk Microphone: Canford C100PB Condenser Gooseneck
    • The Head-mounted Close-talking Microphone: Sennheiser HMD 414-6
    • The Head-mounted Microphone Pre-amplifier: Symetrix SX202 Dual Mic Preamp
    • Silicon Graphics IRIS Indigo's Stereo Line-Level Analogue Input
    • Silicon Graphics IRIS Indigo's A/D Converter
  • Appendix C: The Phone Set
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