| Challenge: | In particular, we manually annotate a Gan Chinese Dialects Corpus (GCDC) including 131.5 hours and 310 documents with 6 different genres, containing news, official document, story, prose, poet, letter and speech, from 19 different Gan regions. |
| Approach: | They propose a scheme to represent Gan Chinese dialects using Chinese character, Chinese Pinyin and Chinese audio forms. |
| Outcome: | The proposed scheme is based on a Gan Chinese Dialects Corpus (GCDC) with 131.5 hours and 310 documents with 6 different genres, containing news, official document, story, prose, poet, letter and speech, from 19 different Gan regions. |
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