Making Full Use of Chinese Speech Corpora.ppt

Making Full Use of Chinese Speech Corpora Thomas Fang Zheng Center of Speech Technology State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Technology and Systems Tsinghua University / Beijing d-Ear Technologies Co., Ltd. http://www.d-E Oct. 2, 2003 Outline Purpose of speech corpora Factors to be considered in data creation Data creation Data transcription Learning from corpora Chinese Corpus Consortium (CCC) Purpose of Speech Corpora Outline Purpose of speech corpora Factors to be considered in data creation Data creation Data transcription Learning from corpora Chinese Corpus Consortium (CCC) Factors to be considered in data creation (1) The language. Language: e.g., Chinese or English Dialectal background (e.g., for Chinese) :- Putonghua or standard Chinese (普通话); Mandarin (官话，Northern China); Wu (吴语，Southern Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai); Yue (粤语，Guangdong, Hong Kong, Nanning Guangxi); Min (闽南话，Fujian, Shantou Guangdong, Haikou Hainan, Taipei Taiwan); Hakka (客家话，Meixian Guangdong, Hsin-Chu Taiwan); Xiang (湘，Hunan); Gan (赣，Jiangxi); Hui (徽，Anhui); and Jin (晋，Shanxi). Special for Chinese :- Simplified Chinese Traditional Chinese Factors to be considered in data creation (2) Speaking style :- Read: for ASR in earlier research, or for TTS Spontaneous/conversational: for ASR nowadays Recording channel Depending on goal of task or application, or the application environment Close-talk microphones: for personal computers (PCs) Telephone, and/or cellular phone: for telephony applications Specific channel: for embedded applications (PDA, digital recorder, ...), or broadcast news, TV news. Normally mono channel instead of stereo channel. However, microphone array may be used for some research purpose Factors to be considered in data creation (3) Sampling rate :- 8 kHz: for the telephone/mobile-phone channel where the bandwidth is about 3.4 kHz 16 kHz: for the close-talk microphone PC channel though the bandwidth is higher than 8 kHz. Sampling precision :- 16 bits, n