Project description: Chinese Speech Corpus (Chinese01)

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◦ Mandarin words and sentences read by native Mandarin speakers
◦ A total of 300 speakers
◦ Native Mandarin speakers
◦ Office, PC environment
◦ Microphone: Sennheiser E835S 
◦ Sampling and data format
 - 16,000 Hz, 16 bit Windows wave format
◦ Prompts
 - 421syllable types (considering 4 tones + neutral tone for modelling of 
Chinese tones)
 - 1,200 phonetically balanced words
 - 661 quadruple digits
 - 366 date expressions
 - sentences: 399 basic syllables, 289 types of tone combination, 1,434 
combination types of voiced and voiceless sounds 
◦ Per speaker
 - 110-123 words 
 - 20 sentences