33. Transcription Corpus of First-encounter Conversations by Elderly Women (TDU-Kao)

Data DOI

https://doi.org/10.32130/src.TDU-Kao

Producer, Project

Prof. Naoki Mukawa, Tokyo Denki University

Makiko Hiraishi, Kao Corporation

Contents

A transcription corpus of daily conversations between elderly women who have never met each other before, with the aim of investigating ways to support elderly people in establishing new friendships. No particular theme for the conversation was specified.

  1. First-encounter conversation in real environment

    Eight healthy women over 70 years old were divided into two groups, and 12 conversations were recorded in pairs within each group. Each conversation takes about 10 minutes. (Distribution data is 9 conversations, excluding conversations in which one specific woman participates.)

  2. First-encounter conversation in remote environment

    The recordings were made using the video conferencing system Zoom with 8 women who were different from 1. After the first recordings, second recordings were also made two weeks later. Each conversation takes about 10 minutes.

This corpus consists of time-mapped texts for commercial audiobooks.

The total of 74 audiobooks (24 novels) were selected from a large number of commercial ones for speech synthesis research.

*NOTE* Audio data is not included in this corpus.

Speaker

16 elderly women

Speech file format

(Speech files are not included)

Distribution media

1 CD

Licensing

For research purpose only

Price

No fee

Note

All documents are written in Japanese.

Sample data

First-encounter conversation in real environment

開始時間 - 秒.ミリ秒　終了時間 - 秒.ミリ秒　　ID1　　ID3
23.71 　27.388　　フランスのあの　ま　ああアートフラワーみたいなものですけど	
26.499　27.723　　　　はいはいはいはいはい。
27.91 　31.99 　　あの　高い何万もする物は買えないから	
31.545　31.957　　　　えーえー。
32.104　33.325　　五千円位ですけど	
33.494　34.848　　水変えなくて良いし	
35.209　36.098　　お見舞いとかにも	
36.281　37.979　　病院に持っていっても匂わないでしょ？。	
38.321　38.883　　　　あらー。
38.883　40.208　　　　良い事教えて頂いた。
39.111　39.951　　で　ベッドルーム	
40.063　41.604　　ベッドの所にも置けるし	
41.713　41.969　　　　ええ。
42.028　45.197　　安いんだったらもう三千五百円位からあります。

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