18. Chinese MULTEXT Corpus (MULTEXT-C)
Data DOI
https://doi.org/10.32130/src.MULTEXT-C
Producer, Project
Assoc. Prof. Masahiko Komatsu, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido (now, Kanagawa University)
Contents
The Chinese version of Multilingual Text Tools and Corpora (MULTEXT).
The speakers were asked to read aloud the 40 passages (each passage includes 5 - 6 sentences) as naturally as possible.
Speaker
10 native speakers of Chinese (5 males and 5 females)
1 speaker read all 40 passages, and each of the other 9 speakers read 15 passages (each passage was read by 4 or 5 speakers).
Recording environment
Soundproof room
Speech file format
WAV format (22 050 Hz, 16 bit, Mono)
Distribution media
1 CD-ROM
Licensing
For research purpose only
Price
No fee
Speech sample for test listening
Chinese texts translated from the MULTEXT corpus and the Japanese MULTEXT corpus
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