Speaker Profiles

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	+
Mother tongue	+
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	+

The following sections show two examples of SmartKom meta data: a recording protocol and a speaker profile.