IFA Dutch Spoken Language Corpus: Raw sentences

This service allows you to query a (PostgreSQL) sentence database of the IFA Dutch Spoken Language Corpus for speech. All speech has been chopped into "sentence-size" units. For information, please contact:Rob van Son Rob.van.Son@hum.uva.nl.

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You can find information on the label protocol, the naming conventions, and the phoneme labels here (in Dutch) and here (some of it in English).

Text types are:

• Fixed: Textual materials read by each speaker
• Variable: Speaker specific textual materials derived from the unique (informal) story told by each speaker

Speaking styles are:

• Informal: An elicited story about a vacation trip told to an interviewer (face to face)
  
• Retold: A previously read story (a fixed fairy tale or the vacation trip) retold in an empty room
• Read: A long text read from a cueing screen
• Sentence: Isolated sentences read from a cueing screen
• Pseudo Sentence: Non-sentences, constructed by stringing randomly picked words, read from a cueing screen
• Word: Word lists read from a cueing screen
• Syllable: Syllable lists read from a cueing screen
• Pronunciation: Diagnostic and idiomatic lists
  (note: specifying these sub-styles can slow down queries involving multiple tables)
  • ABC: The alphabet read from a cueing screen
  • NUM: The numbers from 0-12 read from a cueing screen
  • VOW: Isolated vowels read from a cueing screen
  • HVD: Vowels in H_D context read from a cueing screen
  • VCV: Isolated intervocalic consonants read from a cueing screen

Information on how to use our Web interface to the IFA-corpus PostgreSQL database, look here.

Available file-types are: A label file (Status *: unaligned, R: complete, handaligned, H: handaligned phonemestring, A: automatically aligned phoneme string), two separate channels from the same recording, from a fixed microphone (_fm) and from a head mounted microphone (_hm), and the corresponding spectral Center of Gravity (CoG) files. The Spectral Center of Gravity is a compact way to represent spectral changes, especially changes in speech source (noise and voicing) and changes related to articulatory movements. These are stored as Praat ASCII Sound files. Sound files are CD quality (directly recorded on Audio CD), i.e., 44.1 kHz and 16 bit.

Select the speech material (select Speaker: F/M - female/male, Age, ID A-Z; Text Type: Fixed or Variable; and Speaking Styles):
(use the info buttons to display more or less information, e.g., file sizes and descriptions in the status bar)