UU Database: A Spoken Dialogue Corpus for Studies on Paralinguistic Information in Expressive Conversation

  • Authors:

  • Hiroki Mori;Tomoyuki Satake;Makoto Nakamura;Hideki Kasuya

  • Affiliations:

  • Graduate School of Engineering, Utsunomiya University, Japan 321-8585;Graduate School of Engineering, Utsunomiya University, Japan 321-8585;Faculty of International Studies, Utsunomiya University, Japan 321-8505;International University of Health and Welfare, Japan 324-8501

  • Venue:
  • TSD '08 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The Utsunomiya University (UU) Spoken Dialogue Database for Paralinguistic Information Studies, now available to the public, is introduced. The UU database is intended mainly for use in understanding the usage, structure and effect of paralinguistic information in expressive Japanese conversational speech. This paper describes the outline, design, building, and key properties of the UU database, to show how the corpus meets the demands of speech scientists and developers who are interested in the nature of expressive dialogue speech.