Speech Data. To assess the labeling conventions of K-ToBI and to demonstrate that these conventions are applicable to various types of speech, we selected twenty utterances representing five different discourse types: TV drama, interview, news, text reading, and story reading. Four sentences were selected from each discourse type. These sentences contained a total of 153 words, and lasted a total of 78.5 seconds. 18 speakers (8 male and 10 female) produced the sentences. Table 1 shows a summary of the speech files: Twenty-one labelers, differing in their experience with intonation transcription and in their familiarity with the ToBI model, participated in the experiment. The labelers were divided into four groups: Group 1 (Experts), Group 2 (Familiar with K- ToBI), Group 3 (Familiar with the British intonation model, but new to K-ToBI and intonation transcription), and Group 4 (Beginners, completely new to any model of intonation or prosodic transcription). Each group included five labelers, except for Group 2 which had six labelers. The labelers came from four sites. Six of the labelers from Site A and all of the labelers from Site B and C were provided with 2-3 hours of lecture by the person in charge of each site during which the labeling conventions and background assumptions of K-ToBI were introduced. Site C had 4 hours of group discussion and a review session after the lecture. Two of the labelers from Site A and the one labeler from Site D performed their transcriptions based on the K-ToBI manual alone. Table 2 shows the distribution of labeler groups at each site. Sites # Experts (G1) # Familiar to K-ToBI (G2) # Familiar toother model (G3) # Beginners (G4) Table 2 : Distribution of labelers at each training site 3.3. Procedure Discourse Types # of Utter- ances # of Words # of Speakers Total durat- ion (ms) drama 4 31 2 male, 2 female 14,841 interview 4 29 2 female 14,911 news 4 35 2 male, 2 female 16,869 reading 4 28 2 male, 2 female 15,849 story 4 30 2 male, 2 female 16,086 We selected 20 speech files from the data bank in Korea. The first author sent the following materials to the person in charge at each site: 1) the speech files in wave format, 2) the K-ToBI manual, version 3, together with the example sentence files mentioned in the manual, and 3) a Hangul file in which the sentences from each speech file were written in Hangul orthography with empty spaces below for writing tones and break indices. The wave files and the Hangul files for writing transcrip...
Speech Data. To assess the labeling conventions of K-ToBI and to demonstrate that these conventions are applicable to various types of speech, we selected twenty utterances representing five different discourse types: TV drama, interview, news, text reading, and story reading. Four sentences were selected from each discourse type. These sentences contained a total of 153 words, and lasted a total of 78.5 seconds. 18 speakers (8 male and 10 female) produced the sentences. Table 1 shows a summary of the speech files: Discourse Types # of Utter-ances # of Words # of Speakers Total durat- ion (ms) drama 4 31 2 male, 2 female 14,841 interview 4 29 2 female 14,911 news 4 35 2 male, 2 female 16,869 reading 4 28 2 male, 2 female 15,849 story 4 30 2 male, 2 female 16,086 Total 20 153 8 male, 10 female 78,556 Table 1: Speakers and durations of the five types of speech files
Speech Data. The audio recordings used were sourced from the JASMIN cor- pus [18]. The XXXXXX xxxxxx is a Dutch-Flemish corpus of read and extemporaneous speech collected from children, non- native speakers, and elderly people. Due to time restraints of the session in which the responses were collected, the ques- tionnaire was designed to be relatively short. Eight sentences were selected, each produced by a different non-native speaker of Dutch, aged between 11-17 years (Group 3 in the corpus). Second language (L2) learners were chosen as a reflection of the increasing diversity and multilingualism in society and schools. Furthermore, feedback on intelligibility is particularly benefi- cial for L2 learners. The sentences were extracted from recordings of children reading texts intended for L2 Dutch learners. The sentences were selected based on age-appropriateness for the listeners, in- telligibility, and the number and type of speech and/or reading errors, to produce a sample of sentences ranging in difficulty for each task. During selection the reader’s age, sex and read- ing level were also taken into account to try create a balanced sample. The sentences ranged from six to twelve words, except for one of twenty-one words (S5). 1xxxxx://xxx.xxxxxxxxx.xxx/
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