Read Afrikaans Normal/ Read Afrikaans Fast

Title	Read Afrikaans Normal/ Read Afrikaans Fast
Description	The corpus contains speech of 127 mother tongue speakers of Afrikaans. Every speaker was asked to read a text fragment from a book or a newspaper (about 20-40 seconds of speech per speaker) at a normal speed (RAN), followed by reading a shorter portion of the same text (about 15 seconds) at a faster speed (RAF). The collection is intended to become a primary national language resource, with a view of creating a resource for phonetic researchers, as well as for developers of acoustic models and lexicons for automatic speech recognition (ASR) in Afrikaans. In its creation there was a close collaboration with ELIS-UGent (Belgium).
Contact name	Jacques van Heerden
Contact email	jacques.vanheerden@nwu.ac.za
Publisher(s)	Centre for Text Technology, North-West University
License	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Language(s)	Afrikaans
Author(s)	Wissing, Daan
Subject	speech corpus; reading fast; reading normal
URI	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12185/509
Media type	Speech
Media category	Monolingual speech corpora: annotated
Format extent	131 minutes
Version	1.0
Format size	205 Mb (zipped)
Primary collection	Resource Catalogue
Secondary collection	Resource Index
ISO639 code	afr
Submit date	2019-06-04T07:58:48Z
Date available	2019-06-04T07:58:48Z
Date created	2019-05-28

Resource Catalogue [349]
A collection of language resources available for download from the RMA of SADiLaR. The collection mostly consists of resources developed with funding from the Department of Arts and Culture.
Resource Index [411]
A collection of language resource metadata mostly collected during the NHN funded technology audit of 2009, as well as the SADiLaR technology audit of 2018. Not all resources in this collection are available for download.