WSPIRE: A Parallel Multi-Device Corpus in Neutral and Whispered Speech

Singhal, B and Naini, AR and Ghosh, PK (2021) WSPIRE: A Parallel Multi-Device Corpus in Neutral and Whispered Speech. In: 24th Conference of the Oriental COCOSDA International Committee for the Co-Ordination and Standardisation of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques, 18-20 Nov 2021, Singapore, pp. 146-151.

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Abstract

Most of the speech technologies for whispered speech are lagging behind due to the scarcity of data. Hence, in this paper, we present and open source a multi-device parallel speech corpus in neutral and whispered mode, called wSPIRE. The wSPIRE consists of 88 (54 males and 34 females) speakers recorded using five recording devices in neutral and whispered modes. So this dataset contains almost 44000 audio recordings resulting in a total of 36 hours speech corpus. Apart from this, wSPIRE corpus also contains word-level annotations for each recording. Different types of analyses on the speech recordings and word level annotations are presented. We also throw light on the possible research areas and problems which can be addressed using the wSPIRE. © 2021 IEEE.

Item Type:	Conference Paper
Publication:	2021 24th Conference of the Oriental COCOSDA International Committee for the Co-Ordination and Standardisation of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques, O-COCOSDA 2021
Publisher:	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Additional Information:	The copyright for this article belongs to Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Keywords:	Speech, Multi-devices; Open-source; Recording devices; Research areas; Speech corpora; Speech recording; Speech technology; Whispered speech; Word level; Word-level annotation, Audio recordings
Department/Centre:	Division of Electrical Sciences > Electrical Engineering
Date Deposited:	09 Mar 2022 10:29
Last Modified:	09 Mar 2022 10:29
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/71536

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