%0 Generic
%A Ng, Wai Man
%A Kwan, Alvin C.M.
%A Lee, Tan
%A Hain, Thomas
%D 2017
%T ShefCE: A Cantonese-English bilingual speech corpus -- speech recognition model sets and recording transcripts
%U https://orda.shef.ac.uk/articles/dataset/ShefCE_A_Cantonese-English_bilingual_speech_corpus_--_speech_recognition_model_sets_and_recording_transcripts/4522925
%R 10.15131/shef.data.4522925.v1
%2 https://orda.shef.ac.uk/ndownloader/files/7727008
%2 https://orda.shef.ac.uk/ndownloader/files/7727083
%K Cantonese
%K English data sets
%K speech recognition system
%K Language learning
%K Chinese Languages
%K English as a Second Language
%K English Language
%K Natural Language Processing
%X This online repository contains the speech recognition model sets and the recording transcripts used in the phoneme/syllable recognition experiments reported in [1].
Speech recognition model sets
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The speech recognition model sets are available as a tarball,
named model.tar.gz, in this repository.
The models were trained on Cantonese and English data. For each language, two model sets were trained according to the background setting and the mixed-condition setting respectively. All models are DNN-HMM models, which are hybrid feed-forward neural network models with 6 hidden layers and 2048 neurons per layer. Details can be found in [1]. The Cantonese models include a bigram syllable language model. The English models include a bigram phoneme language model. All model sets are provided in the kaldi format.
1. The background-cantonese model was trained on CUSENT (68 speakers, 19.4 hours) of read Cantonese speech.
2. The background-english model was trained on WSJ-SI84 (83 speakers, 15.2 hours) of read English speech
3. The mixed-condition-cantonese model was trained on background-cantonese data and ShefCE Cantonese training data (25 speakers, 9.7 hours).
4. The mixed-condition-english model was trained on background-english data and ShefCE English training data (25 speakers, 2.3 hours)
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The recording transcripts are available as a tarball, named, stms.tar.gz, in this repository. These transcripts cover the ShefCE portion of the training data and the ShefCE test data.
Four files can be found in the stms.tar.gz archive.
- ShefCE_RC.train.v*.stm contains the transcripts for ShefCE training set (Cantonese)
- ShefCE_RE.train.v*.stm contains the transcripts for ShefCE training set (English)
- ShefCE_RC.test.v*.stm contains the transcripts for ShefCE test set (Cantonese)
- ShefCE_RE.test.v*.stm contains the transcripts for ShefCE test set (English)
Please cite [1] for the use of ShefCE data, models or transcripts.
[1] Raymond W. M. Ng, Alvin C.M. Kwan, Tan Lee and Thomas Hain, "ShefCE: A Cantonese-English Bilingual Speech Corpus for Pronunciation Assessment", in Proc. The 42th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2017.
%I The University of Sheffield