Painter Vojtěch Němeček working at the Klement Gottwald New Steelworks in a fragmented segment from Československé filmové noviny (Czechoslovak Film News) 1935, issue no. 24.
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.
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 scripts 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.
A set of corpora for 120 languages automatically collected from wikipedia and the web.
Collected using the W2C toolset: http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-097C-0000-0022-60D6-1
Segment from Český zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czech Aktualita Sound Newsreel) 1943 issue no. 26A from 1943 captures the Slavia vs. Pilsen water polo match that was a part of the Provincial Youth Swimming Championship organised by the Board of Trustees for the Education of Youth in cooperation with the Czech Amateur Swimming Union and held at the swimming pool in Prague-Barrandov on 3 and 4 July.
Segment from Český zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czech Aktualita Sound Newsreel) issue no. 29A from 1944 was shot during the Week of Czech Youth event organised by the Board of Trustees for the Education of Youth and held from 1 to 9 July. The programme included a concert held on Old Town Square on 8 July. The orchestra and choir consisted of several hundred young musicians and singers. Minister of Education and People´s Enlightenment and Chairman of the Board Emanuel Moravec and Deputy Mayor Joseph Pfitzner watched the event from the balcony of the Old Town Hall. The Board of Trustees´ youth set out from the square in a parade through the streets of Prague. The following day, a sports afternoon took place at Strahov Stadium. Guests of honour included Prime Minister Jaroslav Krejčí and the General Secretary of the Board František Teuner. Emanuel Moravec spoke to the participants. The programme included women´s floor exercises, track and field races and women in stylised costumes dancing to folk songs. The event was concluded with the athletes and audience paying homage to Adolf Hitler.
The segment of Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel), 1938, issue no. 8A shows a speech delivered in Czech by Wenzel Jaksch, the MP for the German Social Democratic Workers' Party (DSAP), about the possible coexistence of, and understanding between, Czechs and Germans.
Segment from Český zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czech Aktualita Sound Newsreel) issue no. 9B from 1944 covered one of the events of the mandatory youth service organised by the Board of Trustees for the Education of Youth. Specifically, it consisted of recreational winter sports activities (skiing, sleighing) with the aim of improving physical fitness and strengthening collective spirit.