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From: sarala@netcom.com (Sarala Rajagopalan)
Subject: Re: Looking for phonetically balanced list
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In article <3p7qtr$nl0@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> luc@ife-lipps1.ee.tu-berlin.de (Luc Krembel) writes:
>
>I'd like to train a database for a free text speaker identification.
>I've no experience in this field but I believe it would be interessant
>to use phonetically balanced sentences to train my system.
>
>Does any of you where I could get phonetically balanced list (pbl) ?
>I've already a list for the german language. I'd like to find
>the same lists for English, French, and if possible also for spanish
>or italian.
>
>Where can I get it, have you any bibliographic references, or internet  
>ressources ? Thanks for your help.
>

The paper below has a list of phonetically balanced sentences.

"IEEE Recommended Practice for Speech Quality Measurements"
IEEE Transactions on Audio and Electroacoustics
Vol. AU-17, No. 3, September 1969

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Sarala Rajagopalan                          sarala@netcom.com
