A child speech corpus is a
speech corpus
A speech corpus (or spoken corpus) is a database of speech audio files and text transcriptions.
In speech technology, speech corpora are used, among other things, to create acoustic models (which can then be used with a speech recognition or spea ...
documenting first-language
language acquisition. Such databases are used in the development of
computer-assisted language learning systems and the characterization of
children's speech at difference ages.
Children's speech varies not only by language, but also by region within a language. It can also be different for specific groups like autistic children, especially when emotion is considered. Thus different databases are needed for different populations. Corpora are available for American and British English as well as for many other European languages.
Overview of Children's Speech Corpora
In the table below, the age range may be described in terms of school grades. "K" denotes "kindergarten" while "G" denotes "grade". For example, an age range of "K - G10" refers to speakers ranging from kindergarten age to grade 10.
This table is based on a paper from the Interspeech conference, 2016.
[Nancy F. Chen, Rong Tong, Darren Wee, Peixuan Lee, Bin Ma and Haizhou Li. ''SingaKids-Mandarin: Speech Corpus of Singaporean Children Speaking Mandarin Chinese'', in Proc. of Interspeech, 2016.] This online article is intended to provide an interactive table for readers and a place where information about children speech corpora that can be updated continuously by the speech research community.
See also
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Computer-assisted language learning
Computer-assisted language learning (CALL), British, or Computer-Aided Instruction (CAI)/Computer-Aided Language Instruction (CALI), American, is briefly defined in a seminal work by Levy (1997: p. 1) as "the search for and study of applicat ...
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Language acquisition
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Language development
Language development in humans is a process starting early in life. Infants start without knowing a language, yet by 10 months, babies can distinguish speech sounds and engage in babbling. Some research has shown that the earliest learning begi ...
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Non-native speech database
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