The corpus contains Czech expressive speech recorded using scenario-based approach by a professional female speaker. The scenario was created on the basis of previously recorded natural dialogues between a computer and seniors. and European Commission Sixth Framework Programme
Information Society Technologies Integrated Project IST-34434
The corpus contains Czech speech of laryngectomy patients recorded before a surgery causing their voice to be lost in order to preserve the voice which can be later used for personalized text-to-speech system. Individual utterances were selected from the language by a special algorithm to cover as much phonetic and prosodic features as possible.