A Spanish multispeaker database of esophageal speech
- Egileak:
- Luis Serrano, Sneha Raman. Inma Hernáez, Eva Navas Jon Sanchez, Ibon Saratxaga
- Urtea:
- 2021
- Aldizkaria:
- Computer Speech and Language
- Liburukia:
- 66
- ISBN/ISSN:
- 0885-2308
- DOI:
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csl.2020.101168
- Deskribapena:
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• A novel database of Spanish esophageal voices designed for developing new software for speakers with this pathology.
• Includes recordings of 100 sentences from 30 esophageal speakers. The size and variety of the database makes it unique.
• Includes the phonetic labels of the recordings. Automatic phonetic labelling procedure is described.
• The main acoustic characteristics of the voices are described and compared with a reduced set of healthy voices.
• The database has successfully been used for reducing Automatic Speech Recognition errors for esophageal speakers.