Speaker Profiles

The speaker data was established during the preparation of a recording session for transcription. A given set of individual recordings containing information about the speaker was listened to and the data was entered into the database containing the speaker meta data, e.g. speaker gender, accent, age, etc.

The following table of recommended meta data about speakers (refer to section for details) contains a + if the information was collected and a - if not.

Speaker ID	+
Sex	+
Date of birth	+ (age)
Mother tongue	- (German implied but not verified)
Second languages of speaker	-
Mother tongue of parents	-
Second languages of parents	-
Pathologies	-
Dentures	-
Piercings	-
Place of elementary school	+
Dialect region	+
Dialect	-
Level of education	-
Level of proficiency for a certain task	-
Profession	-
Height	-
Weight	-
Left/right handed, ambivalent	-
Smoker/non smoker	-
Stutter	-
Free comments	-
Comments	-