BAS
Bavarian Archive for Speech Signals
BITS Unit Selection Synthesis Corpus - BITS-US
Last update 05.03.2007 - gleiche Seite in deutsch
Description
This corpus contains 6732 recordings spoken by 4 professional
speakers covering all German diphone combinations in differing prosodic contexts.
Each sentence was recorded
in three channels: close microphone, large membrane microphone and
laryngographic signal. All recordings are segmented and labelled into
phonemic units as well as annotated prosodically.
The same 4 professional speakers also spoke the BITS Logatom
corpus (BITS-LG) enabling the user
to combine diphone and unit selection techniques based on the same speakers.
- Total number of recordings: 6732
- Total duration: 813min
- Format: WAV 48kHz, 16 bit, Praat TextGrid, BAS Partitur Format (BPF)
- Segmentation: extended German SAM-PA
- Prosodic Annotation: GTobi 'Light'
Audio examples
Recording US10020235_0 close microphone
Bayern München zeigte es dem
Club Atletico
Recording US10020235_1 laryngographic signal
...... ........ ....... .. ... .... ........
Recording US10020235_2 large membrane microphone
Bayern München zeigte es dem Club Atletico
Availability and fees
Without restrictions (except the re-distribution to third parties).
BITS Unit Selection Synthesis Corpus - BITS-US 4 voices
4 DVD-R Iso 9660 + shipping + handling
Scientific EUR 754,35 (ELRA Members EUR 627,17) + VAT
Commercial EUR 9.000,00 (ELRA Members EUR 4627,17) + VAT
It is possible to order voices individually.
Questions and orders:
Florian Schiel