Welsh
Project Summary
Welsh Speech Database
Project Details
Aims
- To collect recorded speech from native speakers of Welsh .
- To annotate the recordings (semi-)automatically at various
linguistic levels:
- Acoustic-phonetic unit
- Phoneme
- Syllable
- Word
- Intonation units
- To perform a statistical analysis of the annotated speech database, and to derive new information about the acoustic characteristics of Welsh speech sounds.
Uses
New data on the acoustic characteristics of Welsh speech sounds and Welsh prosody.
Personnel
- Briony Williams
- Steve Isard (PI)
Funding
This work was funded by the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council, EPSRC grant GR/K84356: "An annotated speech database for Welsh and its application in speech technology"
Duration: October 1996 - March 2000
Final report
A summary of the project can be downloaded (in Postscript format).
Personnel