Building OMProDat: an open multilingual prosodic database

Current research on speech prosody generally makes use of large quantities of recorded data. In order to provide an open multi-lingual basis for the comparative study of speech prosody, the Laboratoire Parole et Langage has begun the creation of an open database OMProDat containing recordings of 40 five sentence passages, originally taken from the European SAM project, each read by 5 male and 5 female speakers of each language. The database will contain both primary data, the recordings, and secondary data in the form of different annotation files. Currently the database contains recordings and annotations for five languages: Korean, English, French and Chinese plus a smaller subset for several languages which will be used for the TRASP workshop. All the data will be freely available on the Speech and Language Data Repository.