Playwright Stanislav Mojžíš-Lom near Prague-Čertovka, Prague, on a street, and in his study at the National Theatre. Mojžíš-Lom on Bohumil Veselý's balcony.
The segment of Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel), 1938, issue no. 26 promotes the State Defence Jubilee Fund intended for modernizing the Czechoslovak Army, and asks for contributions to be made to account no. 400 at the Postal Savings Bank.
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.
Dancer Štěpánka Klimešová-Poláková dances in a Cupid costume. The artist on her wedding day on 7 November 1926 in front of the Church of St. Wenceslas in Prague-Smíchov.
Unedited film footage from a visit of a sixteen-member delegation from the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes to Czechoslovakia on the occasion of the first anniversary of the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic. The delegation was led by Serbian General Stevan Hadžić. Footage from the railway station in Tábor. Welcome by Mayor Josef Šáda, his deputies, Sokol representatives and the district governor. Arrival of the train in Benešov. Welcome by Mayor František Novotný, his deputies and Sokol representatives. The train driving through the Královské Vinohrady (Royal Vineyards) railway station in Prague below Nuselské schody and the Vinohrady tunnel. Welcome at the Wilson Railway Station in Prague. General Hadžić departs in a car driving along Wilson Street towards Wenceslaus Square. His car is followed by the Kornilovs, legionnaires and Sokols on horseback. Welcoming crowds on Wenceslaus Square. Arrival at the first courtyard of Prague Castle. Footage from military manoeuvres between Milovice and Lipnice forests near Milovice that took place on 29 October 1918 under the command of General Bossi. The manoeuvres are attended by Colonel Kušakovic. The delegation in the courtyard of the Škoda factory in Pilsen. General Stevan Hadžić decorates a military battalion during the renaming ceremony of the 102nd Infantry Regiment to Czechoslovak Infantry Regiment No. 48 Yugoslavia in Benešov.
Segment from Český zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czech Aktualita Sound Newsreel) issue no. 46B from 1943 presents footage of the voluntary work and help with harvesting organised by the Board of Trustees for the Education of Youth as part of mandatory service. Older teenagers worked at railway stations, unloading potatoes.