Master's Thesis Project: KaRS
The Kiel Corpus of Read Speech as a Resource for Speech SynthesisThesis
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Added Features
Files with features added to the Kiel Corpus of Read Speech (KCoRS). Due to copyright restrictions, you need a copy of the KCoRS in order to obtain these files. Please send me an e-mail if you are interested.- sentence types
- part-of-speech, chunk phrases, and word frequency
- automatically derived (with TnT and chunk tagger)
- manually corrected
- chunk phrases and grammatical functions
- syllables
Classification and Regression Trees
- symbolic prosody prediction
- prediction of postlexical phonological processes
- prediction of acoustic parameters (z-scores)
Sound Files for Perceptual Evaluation
sentence | CopySynth | Symbolic | Direct | MARY |
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be006 | ||||
be038 | ||||
be074 | ||||
cn015 | ||||
e026 | ||||
e040 | ||||
e042 | ||||
ko029 | ||||
ko039 | ||||
ko049 | ||||
mr007 | ||||
mr016 | ||||
mr018 | ||||
mr040 | ||||
mr088 | ||||
s041 | ||||
s072 | ||||
s1017 | ||||
s1040 | ||||
tk010 |
sentence | CopySynth | Symbolic | Direct | MARY |
---|---|---|---|---|
be006 | ||||
be038 | ||||
be074 | ||||
cn015 | ||||
e026 | ||||
e040 | ||||
e042 | ||||
ko029 | ||||
ko039 | ||||
ko049 | ||||
mr007 | ||||
mr016 | ||||
mr018 | ||||
mr040 | ||||
mr088 | ||||
s041 | ||||
s072 | ||||
s1017 | ||||
s1040 | ||||
tk010 |
Any questions, comments, and suggestions welcome!