A speech data base at the united states air force academy

The Department of Electrical Engineering at the United States Air Force Academy is presently building a speech data base which will consist of selected speech groupings from 1000 of the Academy faculty and students. Data collection is automatic and supervised by computer programs which request information on speaker background, accents, age, etc. and run the actual data collection procedures. The information on individual speakers is placed onto a computer permanent file and is also written onto one channel of the data base tape. Data is encoded onto four channels of Beta format videotape. The data consists of: Pulse code modulated (PCM) speech from a high-quality capacitor microphone, PCM speech from a standard United States Air Force close talk microphone, analog speech from an electroglottograph, and encoded speaker background information.