COLLECTION AND ANNOTATION OF A SPEECH/SONG CORPUS FOR RESEARCH INTO HUMAN UTTERANCE CLASSIFICATION

STAGE 1: CORPUS COLLECTION

 

In this stage of the corpus collection and annotation project, you are asked to provide voice samples for the corpus. Samples should be limited to 5 seconds, if possible. Please read each prompt before you begin, and when recording, please use a natural voice, as if you were talking or singing to a friend. It might help to read and remember the prompt, then voice the sample without looking at the prompt. Feel free to practice any sample before your record it.

  1. Please speak or sing anything you like for about 5 seconds.
  2. Please sing the first line of your favorite song.
  3. In a single short sentence, please tell me what you had for lunch yesterday?
  4. Please speak the phrase "When you're worried, will you run away?"
  5. Please sing the phrase "Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream."
  6. Please speak the phrase "Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream."
  7. Please sing the phrase "O Canada, our home and native land."
  8. Please speak the phrase "O Canada, our home and native land."
  9. In a single short sentence, please tell me what you did last weekend, using a voice which is somewhere between singing and speaking.
  10. Please utter the phrase "Why is the sky blue?" using a voice which is somewhere between speaking and singing.
  11. Please speak or sing anything you like for about 5 seconds.