Overview

The corpus is a subset of a much bigger data ( 10566.9 hours Chinese Mandarin Speech Corpus ) set which was recorded in the same environment. The corpus aims to support researchers in speech recognition, machine translation, speaker recognition, and other speech-related fields. Therefore, the corpus is totally free for academic use.

Data Format

The contents and the corresponding descriptions of the corpus include:

• The corpus contains 755 hours of speech data, which is mostly mobile recorded data.
• 1080 speakers from different accent areas in China are invited to participate in the recording.
• The sentence transcription accuracy is higher than 98%.
• Recordings are conducted in a quiet indoor environment.
• The database is divided into training set, validation set, and testing set in a ratio of 51: 1: 2.
• Detail information such as speech data coding and speaker information is preserved in the metadata file.
• The domain of recording texts is diversified, including interactive Q&A, music search, SNS messages, home command and control, etc.
• Segmented transcripts are also provided.

License

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0