AusKidTalk : an auditory-visual corpus of 3- to 12-year-old Australian children's speech

Beena Ahmed; Kirrie J. Ballard; Denis Burnham; Tharmakulasingam Sirojan; Hadi Mehmood; Dominique Estival; Elise Baker; Felicity Cox; Joanne Arciuli; Titia Benders; Katherine Demuth; Barbara Kelly; Chloé Diskin-Holdaway; Mostafa Shahin; Vidhyasaharan Sethu; Julien Epps; Chwee Beng Lee; Eliathamby Ambikairajah

doi:10.21437/Interspeech.2021-2000

AusKidTalk : an auditory-visual corpus of 3- to 12-year-old Australian children's speech

Beena Ahmed, Kirrie J. Ballard, Denis Burnham, Tharmakulasingam Sirojan, Hadi Mehmood, Dominique Estival, Elise Baker, Felicity Cox, Joanne Arciuli, Titia Benders, Katherine Demuth, Barbara Kelly, Chloé Diskin-Holdaway, Mostafa Shahin, Vidhyasaharan Sethu, Julien Epps, Chwee Beng Lee, Eliathamby Ambikairajah

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Here we present AusKidTalk [1], an audio-visual (AV) corpus of Australian children's speech collected to facilitate the development of speech based technological solutions for children. It builds upon the technology and expertise developed through the collection of an earlier corpus of Australian adult speech, AusTalk [2,3]. This multi-site initiative was established to remedy the dire shortage of children's speech corpora in Australia and around the world that are sufficiently sized to train accurate automated speech processing tools for children. We are collecting ∼600 hours of speech from children aged 3- 12 years that includes single word and sentence productions as well as narrative and emotional speech. In this paper, we discuss the key requirements for AusKidTalk and how we designed the recording setup and protocol to meet them. We also discuss key findings from our feasibility study of the recording protocol, recording tools, and user interface.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of Interspeech 2021: 30 August - 3 September 2021, Brno, Czechia
Publisher	International Speech and Communication Association
Pages	4351-4355
Number of pages	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2021-2000
Publication status	Published - 2021
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Ahmed, B., Ballard, K. J., Burnham, D., Sirojan, T., Mehmood, H., Estival, D., Baker, E., Cox, F., Arciuli, J., Benders, T., Demuth, K., Kelly, B., Diskin-Holdaway, C., Shahin, M., Sethu, V., Epps, J., Lee, C. B., & Ambikairajah, E. (2021). AusKidTalk : an auditory-visual corpus of 3- to 12-year-old Australian children's speech. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2021: 30 August - 3 September 2021, Brno, Czechia (pp. 4351-4355). International Speech and Communication Association. https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2021-2000

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AusKidTalk : an auditory-visual corpus of 3- to 12-year-old Australian children's speech. / Ahmed, Beena; Ballard, Kirrie J.; Burnham, Denis et al.
Proceedings of Interspeech 2021: 30 August - 3 September 2021, Brno, Czechia. International Speech and Communication Association, 2021. p. 4351-4355.

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