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Introducing a novel accent database "IndicAccentDB" which satisfies the below requirements:
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• Gender balance: The speech database should be a collection of a wide range of speakers balancing both the male and female speakers to display the characteristics of the speakers’ speech.
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• Phonetically balanced uniform content: To make the classification task simpler and models to distinguish the speakers, we considered building the IndicAccentDB with uniform content, a collection of speech recordings for
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the Harvard sentences. These sentences gather intrinsic information by combining different phonemes and grammatically focused vocabulary. These sentences are appropriately expressing accents in sentence-level discourse.
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Below are the sample Harvard sentences recited by the speakers in the recordings.
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IndicAccentDB contains speech recordings in six non-native English accents of Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, and Telugu. We collected six non-native accents from volunteers who had strong non-native
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English accents and were well-versed in speaking at least one Indian language. Each speaker was asked to recite the Harvard sentences. The Harvard sentences dataset consists of 72 sets
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license: c-uda
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Introducing a novel accent database "IndicAccentDB" which satisfies the below requirements:
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• Gender balance: The speech database should be a collection of a wide range of speakers balancing both the male and female speakers to display the characteristics of the speakers’ speech.
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• Phonetically balanced uniform content: To make the classification task simpler and models to distinguish the speakers, we considered building the IndicAccentDB with uniform content, a collection of speech recordings for
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the Harvard sentences. These sentences gather intrinsic information by combining different phonemes and grammatically focused vocabulary. These sentences are appropriately expressing accents in sentence-level discourse.
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Below are the sample Harvard sentences (https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs/audio/harvard.html)recited by the speakers in the recordings.
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“The juice of lemons makes fine punch.
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The fish twisted and turned on the bent hook.”
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IndicAccentDB contains speech recordings in six non-native English accents of Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, and Telugu. We collected six non-native accents from volunteers who had strong non-native
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English accents and were well-versed in speaking at least one Indian language. Each speaker was asked to recite the Harvard sentences. The Harvard sentences dataset consists of 72 sets
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