African Speech Technology Black-English Speech Corpus
| Title | African Speech Technology Black-English Speech Corpus |
| Description | African Speech Technology speech and transcription data for the Black-English database. The "speech" directory contains English speech as spoken by South African speakers whose mother tongue language is one of the indigenous Southern African languages (e.g. isiXhosa, isiZulu, Sesotho). |
| Contact name | J.C. Roux |
| Contact email | Justus.Roux@nwu.ac.za |
| Publisher(s) | North-West University; Stellenbosch University; University of Transkei; University of Free State (Qwa-Qwa campus); Rhodes University; University of KwaZulu-Natal; University of Western Cape |
| License | Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 South Africa License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/za/legalcode |
| Language(s) | English |
| Author(s) | CatchWord Language and Speech Technologies (Pty) Ltd |
| Citation | Roux, J. C., Louw, P. H., & Niesler, T. R. 2004. The African Speech Technology project: An assessment. In Proceedings of LREC, Lisbon, Portugal, 2004. pp. 93–96. |
| URI | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12185/433 |
| ISLRN | 971-854-661-326-3 |
| Media type | Speech |
| Type | Data |
| Media category | Monolingual speech corpora: Annotated |
| Format extent | 383 Mb (zipped) |
| Version | 1 |
| Format size | 0.275833333 |
| Format medium | *.alaw; *.TextGrid; *.lab; *.t02 |
| Project | African Speech Technology |
| Software requirements | Audacity |
| Source | Telephone speech |
| Stratum | Details in: Louw, P.H. Roux, J.C. & Botha, E.C. 2001. Telephone speech databases: Corpus design and contents. In Proceedings of Eurospeech 2001, Aalborg. pp. 2005-2058. |
| Database | Monolingual Speech Corpora: Annotated |
| Primary collection | Resource Catalogue |
| Secondary collection | Resource Index |
| ISO639 code | eng |
| Submit date | 2018-02-05T20:19:24Z; 2018-03-05T17:51:27Z |
| Date available | 2018-02-05T20:19:24Z; 2018-03-05T17:51:27Z |
| Date created | 2014-12-11 |
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