TY - GEN
T1 - AusKidTalk
T2 - Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (22nd : 2021)
AU - Ahmed, Beena
AU - Ballard, Kirrie
AU - Burnham, Denis
AU - Sirojan, Tharmakulasingam
AU - Mehmood, Hadi
AU - Estival, Dominique
AU - Baker, Elise
AU - Cox, Felicity
AU - Arciuli, Joanne
AU - Benders, Titia
AU - Demuth, Katherine
AU - Kelly, Barbara
AU - Diskin-Holdaway, Chloé
AU - Shahin, Mostafa
AU - Sethu, Vidhyasaharan
AU - Epps, Julien
AU - Lee, Chwee Beng
AU - Ambikairajah, Eliathamby
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Here we present AusKidTalk [1], an audio-visual (AV) corpus of Australian children's speech collected to facilitate the development of speech based technological solutions for children. It builds upon the technology and expertise developed through the collection of an earlier corpus of Australian adult speech, AusTalk [2,3]. This multi-site initiative was established to remedy the dire shortage of children's speech corpora in Australia and around the world that are sufficiently sized to train accurate automated speech processing tools for children. We are collecting ∼600 hours of speech from children aged 3- 12 years that includes single word and sentence productions as well as narrative and emotional speech. In this paper, we discuss the key requirements for AusKidTalk and how we designed the recording setup and protocol to meet them. We also discuss key findings from our feasibility study of the recording protocol, recording tools, and user interface.
AB - Here we present AusKidTalk [1], an audio-visual (AV) corpus of Australian children's speech collected to facilitate the development of speech based technological solutions for children. It builds upon the technology and expertise developed through the collection of an earlier corpus of Australian adult speech, AusTalk [2,3]. This multi-site initiative was established to remedy the dire shortage of children's speech corpora in Australia and around the world that are sufficiently sized to train accurate automated speech processing tools for children. We are collecting ∼600 hours of speech from children aged 3- 12 years that includes single word and sentence productions as well as narrative and emotional speech. In this paper, we discuss the key requirements for AusKidTalk and how we designed the recording setup and protocol to meet them. We also discuss key findings from our feasibility study of the recording protocol, recording tools, and user interface.
KW - Australian English
KW - children's speech
KW - speech corpus
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85118248702&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.21437/Interspeech.2021-2000
DO - 10.21437/Interspeech.2021-2000
M3 - Conference proceeding contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85118248702
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH
SP - 3680
EP - 3684
BT - INTERSPEECH 2021
PB - International Speech Communication Association
CY - Baixas, France
Y2 - 30 August 2021 through 3 September 2021
ER -