_/_/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ BAVARIAN ARCHIVE FOR SPEECH SIGNALS University of Munich, Institut of Phonetics Schellingstr. 3/II, 80799 Munich, Germany bas@phonetik.uni-muenchen.de COPYRIGHT University of Munich 2001. All rights reserved. This corpus and software may not be disseminated further - not even partly - without a written permission of the copyright holders. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- RVG-J Corpus (Bavaria) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The RVG-J Corpus (Regional Variants of German - Junior) was recorded in 2001 at the Institute of Phonetics and Speech Communication at the University of Munich, Germany. The corpus contains both read and non-scripted German utterances. It comprises the original RVG prompts (telephone numbers, sentences, commands, digits, etc.) plus spellings, date and time expressions, and free form responses to questions, e.g. "What are you wearing?", "How did you get here?", etc. The speakers were adolescents between 11 and 19 years of age, recruited in public schools in Munich and the suburbs. More than 95% of the speakers have German as their mother language, and almost all of them attended school in Bavaria; 89 of them were male and 93 female. Speakers younger than 18 years were required to provide a waiver signed by their parents stating that they were allowed to participate in the recordings. The corpus can be used for the training of speech recognisers or analyses of adolescent speech. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ANNOT/ : SAM compatible annotation files DATA/ : signal data DOC/ : documentation, start with 'README' TABLE/ : metadata/doc tables INDEX/ : index and transcript lists