Details

Subject(s)

• English language—Spoken English—United States [Browse]
• English language—Phonetics [Browse]
• English language—Intonation [Browse]
• Automatic speech recognition [Browse]

Related name

• Linguistic Data Consortium [Browse]

Summary note

Contains the complete TIMIT acoustic-phonetic speech corpus. TIMIT was designed to provide speech data for the acquisition of acoustic-phonetic knowledge and for the development and evaluation of automatic speech recognition systems. TIMIT contains a total of 6300 sentences, 10 sentences spoken by each of 630 speakers from 8 major dialect regions of the United States.

Other title(s)

• Acoustic-phonetic continuous speech corpus
• TIMIT acoustic-phonetic continuous speech corpus

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