speech-accent-archive

Created by Rachael Tatman, Steven H. Weinberger, et al.

version	2.2.0
license	CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
usage	research
languages	eng
format	wav
channel	1
sampling rate	16000
bit depth	16
duration	0 days 16:29:32.808937500
files	2138, duration distribution: 15.8 s 106.6 s
segments	17688, duration distribution: 0.8 s 7.0 s
repository	audb-public

Description

This dataset contains 2138 speech samples, each from a different talker reading the same reading passage. Talkers come from 177 countries and have 214 different native languages. Each talker is speaking in English. ### All read the following passage: “Please call Stella. Ask her to bring these things with her from the store: Six spoons of fresh snow peas, five thick slabs of blue cheese, and maybe a snack for her brother Bob. We also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids. She can scoop these things into three red bags, and we will go meet her Wednesday at the train station.” ### This dataset was collected by many individuals under the supervision of Steven H. Weinberger. The most up-to-date version of the archive is hosted at http://accent.gmu.edu/. If you use this dataset in your work, please include the following citation: Weinberger, S. (2013). Speech accent archive. George Mason University.

Example

wav/dutch18.wav

Tables

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ID	Type	Columns
accent.test	segmented	tone, native_language, sex	file start end tone native_language sex wav/amharic19.wav 0 days 00:00:00.860000 0 days 00:00:01.920000 neutral amharic female wav/amharic19.wav 0 days 00:00:02.260000 0 days 00:00:04.680000 neutral amharic female wav/amharic19.wav 0 days 00:00:05.280000 0 days 00:00:07.360000 neutral amharic female wav/amharic19.wav 0 days 00:00:07.700000 0 days 00:00:09.700000 neutral amharic female wav/amharic19.wav 0 days 00:00:10.060000 0 days 00:00:12.140000 neutral amharic female 2597 rows x 3 columns
files	filewise	age, age_onset, birthplace, native_language, sex, speaker, country, duration	file age age_onset birthplace native_language sex speaker country duration wav/afrikaans1.wav 27 9 virginia, south africa afrikaans female 1 south africa 0 days 00:00:20.819562500 wav/afrikaans2.wav 40 5 pretoria, south africa afrikaans male 2 south africa 0 days 00:00:22.021250 wav/afrikaans3.wav 43 4 pretoria, transvaal, south africa afrikaans male 418 south africa 0 days 00:00:26.932250 wav/afrikaans4.wav 26 8 pretoria, south africa afrikaans male 1159 south africa 0 days 00:00:23.536312499 wav/afrikaans5.wav 19 6 cape town, south africa afrikaans male 1432 south africa 0 days 00:00:20.297125 2138 rows x 8 columns
segments	segmented	content	file start end content wav/afrikaans1.wav 0 days 00:00:00.960000 0 days 00:00:03.740000 speech wav/afrikaans1.wav 0 days 00:00:04.100000 0 days 00:00:06.380000 speech wav/afrikaans1.wav 0 days 00:00:06.760000 0 days 00:00:10.800000 speech wav/afrikaans1.wav 0 days 00:00:11.220000 0 days 00:00:14.600000 speech wav/afrikaans1.wav 0 days 00:00:14.900000 0 days 00:00:19.740000 speech 17688 rows x 1 column

Schemes

ID	Dtype	Labels
age	int
age_onset	int
birthplace	str
content	str	speech
country	str
duration	time
native_language	str
sex	str	female, male
speaker	int
tone	str	neutral