The Nautilus Speaker Characterization Corpus: Speech Recordings and Labels of Speaker Characteristics and Voice Descriptions (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | The Nautilus Speaker Characterization corpus is a conversational microphone speech recording corpus from 300 speakers. |
| Approach: | They present a speaker characterization corpus from 300 german speakers . they use four scripted and four semi-spontaneous dialogs to simulate telephone calls . |
| Outcome: | The speaker characterization corpus is presented in the acoustically-isolated room Nautilus . it comprises conversational microphone speech recordings from 300 speakers . the data will be made freely available to the scientific community . |
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