Project description: Chinese Speech Corpus (Chinese03)

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◦ Words and sentences uttered by native Mandarin speakers 
◦ A total of 300 speakers (Male: 150, Female: 150)
◦ Speakers from Peking
◦ Office environment
◦ Microphone 
 - Sennheiser E835S
◦ Sampling and data format
 - 16000 Hz, 16-bit Windows wave format
◦ Texts for prompts 
 - People Daily(Ren Min Ri Bao) 1993/1994/1996/1997
 - Economic Daily(Jing Ji Ri Bao) 1992/1994
 - Market(Shi Chang Bao) 1994
 - Xinhua News(Xinhuashe Wengao) 1994/1995/1996
◦ Prompts selection
 - Words and sentences were selected from the sentences (a total of 685,982 
sentences) with 10-20 characters sampled from the population corpus
 - Frequencies of Di-IFs (IF: Chinese initial, Chinese final/rhyme) in Chinese 
syllables were considered
◦ Prompts 
 - 150 sets of words (A total of 22,500 words)
 - 150 sets of sentences (A total of 14,872 sentences)
◦ Per speaker
 - 1 set of 150 words
 - 1 set of 100 sentences