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| *** THIS IS A SAMPLE DATABASE ONLY. THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN | |
| *** THE REST OF THIS README APPLIES TO THE FULL DATABASE | |
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| This is an Italian (Italy) conversational database, produced by Appen Butler Hill Pty. Ltd. in 2021. | |
| Appen Butler Hill Pty. Ltd. owns copyright of the database. | |
| The database contains transcription and speech data recorded during 241 sessions. Each of the 241 unique speaker-pairs was recorded making conversations of approximately an average of 60 minutes. | |
| Each pair of speakers recorded 4 to 12 conversations of approximately an average of 5-15 min on different topics. Speakers were provided with a topic for each conversation. | |
| The recordings have been made using the Appen Mobile smartphone app with the phone positioned between two speakers who are in the same room. | |
| The database contains approximately 256.38 hours of audio data in total. | |
| The directory structure is designed to group data from each pair of speakers in a single folder. Each pair of speakers has been identified with a unique ID (Users_ID). This ID is also the name of each session folder. Within each session folder are the conversations made by the pair of speakers. The file naming structure indicates the language and country, date of recording, session ID (which is different from the speaker pair ID), and the conversational topic. | |
| Directory Structure: | |
| /+-COPYRIGHT.TXT | |
| +-README.TXT | |
| +-DEMOGRAPHICS.CSV | |
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| +-AUDIO----------+-1011978----------------+-ITAITA_20210224-110730-0006_Topic_Weather.WAV | |
| | | +-ITAITA_20210224-110730-0007_Topic_Retail.WAV | |
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| | | +-ITAITA_20210224-110730-0017_Topic_Leisure.WAV | |
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| | +-1166225----------------+-ITAITA_20210302-112551-0006_Topic_Legal.WAV | |
| | | +-ITAITA_20210302-112551-0007_Topic_Clothing.WAV | |
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| | | +-ITAITA_20210302-112551-0016_Topic_Food.WAV | |
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| | +-977502-----------------+-ITAITA_20210303-145035-0006_Topic_Food.WAV | |
| | +-ITAITA_20210303-145035-0007_Topic_Work.WAV | |
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| | +-ITAITA_20210303-145035-0011_Topic_Social.WAV | |
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| +-TRANSCRIPTION--+-1011978----------------+-ITAITA_20210224-110730-0006_Topic_Weather.TXT | |
| | | +-ITAITA_20210224-110730-0007_Topic_Retail.TXT | |
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| | | +-ITAITA_20210224-110730-0017_Topic_Leisure.TXT | |
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| | +-1166225----------------+-ITAITA_20210302-112551-0006_Topic_Legal.TXT | |
| | | +-ITAITA_20210302-112551-0007_Topic_Clothing.TXT | |
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| | | +-ITAITA_20210302-112551-0016_Topic_Food.TXT | |
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| | +-977502-----------------+-ITAITA_20210303-145035-0006_Topic_Food.TXT | |
| | +-ITAITA_20210303-145035-0007_Topic_Work.TXT | |
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| | +-ITAITA_20210303-145035-0011_Topic_Social.TXT | |
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| COPYRIGHT.TXT is a copyright document in ASCII format. | |
| README_ITA_ITA_20210610.TXT is this file. It is an ASCII text file that describes the database. | |
| DEMOGRAPHICS_ITA_ITA_20210610.CSV is an Excel file that contains the following fields: | |
| - Users_ID | |
| - Device_Model | |
| - Device_OS | |
| - Participant_1_Gender | |
| - Participant_1_Age | |
| - Participant_1_Dialect | |
| - Participant_2_Gender | |
| - Participant_2_Age | |
| - Participant_2_Dialect | |
| - Topics | |
| - Environment | |
| CONVERSATION TOPICS: | |
| The conversations were spontaneous and were on a variety of generic topics (e.g. news, travel, study etc.). The topics can be found in the Demographics file. | |
| Participants were provided with 12 topics to chooise from. They needed to pick at least 4 topics and may skip up to 8 topics. | |
| /AUDIO contains all audio data from the 241 sessions. Audio format is WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, mono 48000 Hz | |
| /TRANSCRIPTION contains all transcription data for the 241 sessions. | |
| The Audio and Transcription filenames use the following template: | |
| <Language_ISO_Code><Country_ISO_Code>_<recording_date>-<Session_ID>_<Topic_Number>_<Topic>.wav | |
| E.g. ITAITA_20210224-110730-0006_Topic_Weather.WAV | |
| There is one session that has no known recording environment. This session recording environment is listed as "Unknown". | |
| TRANSCRIPTION TAGS: | |
| #ah filler sound | |
| #breath inhalation and exhalation between words, yawning | |
| #click machine or phone click noise, sounds of interference from the phone line like crackling sounds | |
| #cough coughing, throat cleaning, sneezing | |
| #dtmf noise made by pressing telephone keypad | |
| #eh filler sound | |
| #foreign the speaker says one or more words from another language which the transcriber cannot understand | |
| #hm filler sound | |
| #laugh laughing, chuckling | |
| #lipsmack lipsmacks, tongue clicks | |
| #noise background short noises like door slams, a loud cough by a person in the background, car horns | |
| #no-speech pauses in speech for 0.6 seconds or more; also used when the entire utterance is silent, or when the utterance contains only noises such as a ring or a short noise | |
| #overlap overlapping speech | |
| #prompt speech coming from a computer or a background recording | |
| #ring the sound of a phone ringing | |
| #spk_1 the first speaker in the recording | |
| #spk_2 the second speaker in the recording | |
| #sta stationary noise | |
| #um filler sound | |
| #utx the entire utterance cannot be transcribed because of interference, audio problems or the person is not speaking clearly | |
| (()) one or several words that are not intelligible | |
| * mispronunciation | |
| - word fragment | |
| ~ truncation - words cut off by the recording device at the beginning/end of the utterance | |
| [12.345] timestamp | |