10. Priority Areas "Advanced Utilization of Multimedia to Promote Higher Education Reform" Speech Database (UME)
10-b. Japanese Speech Database Read by Foreign Students (UME-JRF)
Data DOI
https://doi.org/10.32130/src.UME-JRF
Producer, Project
Speech Database Committee of the Priority Areas Project on "Advanced Utilization of Multimedia to Promote Higher Education Reform" during 2000-2002.
Contents
Japanese Speech Database Read by Overseas Students:
- ATR's 503 phonetically balanced sentences
- 108 sentences difficult to pronounce
- 42 sentences for prosodic evaluation
- 115 minimal-pair words
Speaker
141 speakers (72 males and 69 females) including native speakers of 26 languages.
Japanese Level: Intermediate – Senior
Arabic | 2 males | 1 female |
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Azerbaijanian | 1 male | |
Bengalese | 1 male | |
Cambodian | 1 male | |
Chinese | 26 males | 29 females |
Danish | 1 male | |
English | 2 males | 1 female |
Filipino | 1 female | |
French | 5 males | 1 female |
Greek | 1 female | |
Indonesian | 4 males | 1 female |
Korean | 16 males | 16 females |
Laotian | 1 female | |
Malay | 2 females | |
Malaysian | 1 male | 1 female |
Mongolian | 1 male | 2 females |
Nepalese | 1 female | |
Persian | 1 female | |
Portuguese | 2 males | |
Romanian | 1 female | |
Russian | 1 female | |
Sinhalese | 1 male | 2 females |
Spanish | 3 males | 1 female |
Sundanese | 1 male | |
Thai | 6 females | |
Vietnamese | 5 males | 1 female |
Speech file format
WAV format (16kHz, 16bit, Mono)
Distribution media
1 DVD-DL
Licensing
For research purpose only
Price
No fee
Supplements
Grading lists by 4 native Japanese teachers are attached.
Note
All documents are written in Japanese.
Further information
Speech sample for test listening
Utterances by native speakers of Chinese
- 1) Phonetically balanced sentences
- 2) Sentences difficult to pronounce
- 3) Sentences for prosodic evaluation
- 4) Minimal-pair words