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Published December 13, 2016 | Version v1
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Children speech recording (English, spontaneous speech + pre-defined sentences)

Description

The dataset contains audio recordings (lossless WAV) of 11 young children (age M=4.9 years old; 5 females, 6 males).

Recordings include:

  • free speech (retelling a picture book, ‘Frog, Where Are You?’ by Mercer Mayer)
  • repeating 5 pre-defined short sentences (like 'the horse is in the stable')
  • telling the numbers from 1 to 10

The recordings are in English and the participants include both native and non-native speakers.

Each sample is recorded from 3 sources:

  • A studio-grade microphone (Rode NT1-A)
  • A portable microphone (Zoom H1)
  • The two front microphones of the Aldebaran NAO robot

(note that, due to technical issues, a few (sample/microphone) combinations are missing).

 

For the free-speech recording, a manual segmentation of the utterances is provided as well.

Files

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Additional details

Funding

DoRoThy – Donating Robots a Theory of Mind 657227
European Commission
DREAM – Development of Robot-Enhanced therapy for children with AutisM spectrum disorders 611391
European Commission
L2TOR – Second Language Tutoring using Social Robots 688014
European Commission

References

  • J. Kennedy, S. Lemaignan, C. Montassier, P. Lavalade, B. Irfan, F. Papadopoulos, E. Senft, T. Belpaeme (2017) Child Speech Recognition in Human-Robot Interaction: Evaluations and Recommendations