5. Real World Computing Project (RWCP) Speech Corpora

5-c. RWCP News Speech Corpus (RWCP-SP99)

Data DOI

https://doi.org/10.32130/src.RWCP-SP99

Producer, Project

RWCP (Real World Computing Partnership)

RWCP Intellectual Resources Working group

Contents

Professional announcers read broadcast news articles.

A professional broadcast reporter wrote the draft based on the actual event. The announcer read to himself once and then he read the draft once imaging the actual broadcasting.

Each speaker read about 40 news articles (30 independent articles + 10 articles common to all speakers) and set A (50 sentences) of ATR's 503 phonetically balanced sentences.

Speaker

• M1  Male professional narrator, 30ies of age
• M2  Male professional announcer, 40ies of age
• M3  Male professional announcer, 30ies of age
• F1  Female professional narrator, 30ies of age
• F2  Female professional announcer, 40ies of age
• F4  Female professional announcer, 30ies of age

Speech file format

RAW format (16 kHz, 16 bit, Mono, BigEndian)

WAV format (16 kHz, 16 bit, Mono) renewal in Aug. 2009

Distribution media

1 DVD

Licensing

For research purpose only

Price

No fee

Further information

PDF file

Note

All documents are written in Japanese.

Speech sample for test listening

• News articles
  • Recorded with a close talk microphone／Recorded with a condenser microphone
  • 国税庁は１７日、１９９４年分の地価税の申告実績を発表し、申告税額が一千万円を超えた法人と個人を全国の税務署で公示しました。
• Phonetically balanced sentences
  • Recorded with a close talk microphone／Recorded with a condenser microphone
  • 逆境に耐えたこのプロデューサーの作品には、ヒューマニズムが脈々と息づいている