Open-source Multi-speaker Corpora of the English Accents in the British Isles (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Using a dataset of high-quality audio, the authors examine the accents of 120 volunteers in the British Isles. |
| Approach: | They present a dataset of high-quality audio of English sentences recorded by volunteers with different accents of the British Isles. |
| Outcome: | The transcribed audio includes pronunciations of global locations, major airlines and common personal names in different accents. |
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