Talks of Karel Makoň given to his friends in the course of late sixties through early nineties of the 20th century. The topic is mostly christian mysticism.
The database actually contains two sets of recordings, both recorded in the moving or stationary vehicles (passenger cars or trucks). All data were recorded within the project “Intelligent Electronic Record of the Operation and Vehicle Performance” whose aim is to develop a voice-operated software for registering the vehicle operation data.
The first part (full_noises.zip) consists of relatively long recordings from the vehicle cabin, containing spontaneous speech from the vehicle crew. The recordings are accompanied with detailed transcripts in the Transcriber XML-based format (.trs). Due to the recording settings, the audio contains many different noises, only sparsely interspersed with speech. As such, the set is suitable for robust estimation of the voice activity detector parameters.
The second set (prompts.zip) consists of short prompts that were recorded in the controlled setting – the speakers either answered simple questions or they repeated commands and short phrases. The prompts were recorded by 26 different speakers. Each speaker recorded at least two sessions (with identical set of prompts) – first in stationary vehicle, with low level of noise (those recordings are marked by –A_ in the file name) and second while actually driving the car (marked by –B_ or, since several speakers recorded 3 sessions, by –C_). The recordings from this set are suitable mostly for training of the robust domain-specific speech recognizer and also ASR test purposes.
Vystadial 2013 is a dataset of telephone conversations in English and Czech, developed for training acoustic models for automatic speech recognition in spoken dialogue systems. It ships in three parts: Czech data, English data, and scripts.
The data comprise over 41 hours of speech in English and over 15 hours in Czech, plus orthographic transcriptions. The scripts implement data pre-processing and building acoustic models using the HTK and Kaldi toolkits.
This is the Czech data part of the dataset. and This research was funded by the Ministry of
Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic under the grant agreement
LK11221.
This is the Czech data collected during the `VYSTADIAL` project. It is an extension of the 'Vystadial 2013' Czech part data release. The dataset comprises of telephone conversations in Czech, developed for training acoustic models for automatic speech recognition in spoken dialogue systems.