GRASS: The Graz Corpus of Read and Spontaneous Speech

Barbara Schuppler; Martin Hagmüller; Juan Andrés Morales Cordovilla; Hannes Pessentheiner

GRASS: The Graz Corpus of Read and Spontaneous Speech

Barbara Schuppler
, Martin Hagmüller
, Juan Andrés Morales Cordovilla
, Hannes Pessentheiner

Institute of Signal Processing and Speech Communication (4420)

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review

Abstract

This paper provides a description of the preparation, the speakers, the recordings, and the creation of the orthographic transcriptions of the first large scale speech database for Austrian German. It contains approximately 1900 minutes of (read and spontaneous) speech
produced by 38 speakers. The corpus consists of three components. First, the Conversation Speech (CS) component contains free conversations of one hour length between friends, colleagues, couples, or family members. Second, the Commands Component (CC)
contains commands and keywords which were either read or elicited by pictures. Third, the Read Speech (RS) component contains phonetically balanced sentences and digits. The speech of all components has been recorded at super-wideband quality in a soundproof
recording-studio with head-mounted microphones, large-diaphragm microphones, a laryngograph, and with a video camera. The orthographic transcriptions, which have been created and subsequently corrected manually, contain approximately 290 000 word tokens
from 15 000 different word types.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	9th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2014)
Place of Publication	Red Hook, NY
Publisher	Curran
Pages	1465-1470
Volume	2
ISBN (Print)	9781632666215
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation: LREC 2014 - Reykjavik, Iceland Duration: 26 May 2014 → 31 May 2014

Conference

Conference	9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
Abbreviated title	LREC 2014
Country/Territory	Iceland
City	Reykjavik
Period	26/05/14 → 31/05/14

Fields of Expertise

Information, Communication & Computing

Treatment code (Nähere Zuordnung)

Application
Basic - Fundamental (Grundlagenforschung)

1 Finished

CLCS - Cross-layer pronunciation modeling for conversational speech
Schuppler, B. (Project manager)
1/09/12 → 30/04/17
Project: Research project

1 Abstract
1 Article

Turn-taking annotation for quantitative and qualitative analyses of conversation
Kelterer, A. & Schuppler, B., 2025, In: arXiv.org e-Print archive. cs.CL, p. 1 41 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access
10 Years of GRASS development: Experiences from annotating a large corpus of conversational Austrian German
Schuppler, B., Kelterer, A. & Hagmüller, M., 2023.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract

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GRASS: The Graz Corpus of Read and Spontaneous Speech

Abstract

Conference

Fields of Expertise

Treatment code (Nähere Zuordnung)

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Projects

CLCS - Cross-layer pronunciation modeling for conversational speech

Research output

Turn-taking annotation for quantitative and qualitative analyses of conversation

10 Years of GRASS development: Experiences from annotating a large corpus of conversational Austrian German

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