The Fame! Speech Corpus

Authors: Henk van den Heuvel
Updated: Fri 16 December 2016
Source: http://www.islrn.org/resources/340-994-352-616-4/
Type: audio data
Languages: Dutch, Frisian
Keywords: speechaudiolanguageDutchFrisian
Open Access: yes
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Publications: Yılmaz, E., Dijkstra, J., Velde, H., Kampstra, F., Algra, J., van den Heuvel, He., & Van Leeuwen, D. (2017). Longitudinal Speaker Clustering and Verification Corpus with Code-Switching Frisian-Dutch Speech. 10.21437/Interspeech.2017-301.
Citation: van den Heuvel, H. (2016). The Fame! Speech Corpus. International Standard Language Resource Number. http://www.islrn.org/resources/340-994-352-616-4/
Summary:

The Fame! Speech Corpus consists of 203 audio segments of approximately 5 minutes long extracted from various radio programs covering a time span of almost 50 years (1966-2015), adding a longitudinal dimension to the database. The content of the recordings are very diverse including radio programs about culture, history, literature, sports, nature, agriculture, politics, society and languages. The total duration of the manually annotated radio broadcasts sums up to 18 hours, 33 minutes and 57 seconds. The stereo audio data has a sampling frequency of 48 kHz and 16-bit resolution per sample.