16. X-ray Film database for speech research (X-Ray)
Data DOI
https://doi.org/10.32130/src.X-Ray
Producer, Project
Prof. Kevin G. Munhall (Queen's University)
Dr. Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson and Dr. Yoh'ichi Tohkura (then of ATR)
Contents
This corpus offers the movies from high quality x-ray films compiled on CAV laserdisk.
Each speaker read phonetically contrastive sentences (about 30 sentences per speaker).
The movies yield the best dynamic view of the entire vocal tract and the complex movements of the tongue.
Speaker
Canadian English: 5 speakers (2 males and 3 females)
Canadian French: 9 speakers (5 males and 4 females)
Movie and speech file format
Movie: MPEG format and DVD-Video format
Speech: WAV format (44.1 kHz, 16 bit, Stereo)
Distribution media
2 DVDs
Licensing
For research purpose only
Price
No fee