ISCA Archive Eurospeech 1993
ISCA Archive Eurospeech 1993

Albayzin speech database: design of the phonetic corpus

Asunción Moreno, Dolors Poch, Antonio Bonafonte, Eduardo Lleida, Joaquim Llisterri, Jose B. Marino, Climent Nadeu

This paper describes the phonetic content of Albayzin, a spoken database for Spanish designed for speech recognition purposes. A statistical study of a large sample of spontaneous speech is presented, and the phonetic and statistical criteria for the final constitution of the database are discussed. Finally, the contents of the phonetic database are analyzed