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From: draxler@cis.uni-muenchen.de (Christoph Draxler)
Subject: Re: Non-English Speech Databases
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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1994 09:20:16 GMT
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In article <2nc180$6oi@sun.cisi.unige.it>,
carrara@barbarella.cisi.unige.it. (Enrico A. Carrara) wrote:

> Does anyone have pointers to speech databases of words, phonemes or alphabet
> letters in languages different from English. I would be particularly inteerestedin databases for Italian, French and German.
> 

The PhonDat database of Spoken German consists of 6 CDs of
read German text (200 phonemically balanced sentences, IPA
Butter story and North Wind Fable), read by dozens of speakers.

All of the 200 sentences and some of the stories have been 
segmented and transcribed (in a narrow phonetic transcription)
by human segmenters...orthography, the phonemic citation form
and the segmentation are part of the database. There's also
a Prolog database (with database access tools) of the transcription
data.

If you need further information, contact 

   Institut fuer Phonetik und sprachl. Kommunikation
   Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen
   Schellingstr. 3
   D 80799 Muenchen
   Germany

   Tel: +49 89 2180 2758
   Fax: +49 89 280 0362

Christoph

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