Introduction IARPA Babel Javanese Language Pack IARPA-babel402b-v1.0b was developed by Appen for the IARPA (Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity) Babel program. It contains approximately 204 hours of Javanese conversational and scripted telephone speech collected in 2014 and 2015 along with corresponding transcripts. The Babel program focused on underserved languages and sought to develop speech recognition technology that could be rapidly applied to any human language to support keyword search performance over large amounts of recorded speech. Data The Javanese speech in this release represents the Central, Western, and Eastern Javanese dialect regions of Indonesia. The gender distribution among speakers is approximately equal; speakers' ages range from 16 years to 65 years. Calls were made using different telephones (e.g., mobile, landline) from a variety of environments including the street, a home or office, a public place, and inside a vehicle. Audio data is presented as 8kHz 8-bit a-law encoded audio in sphere format and 48kHz 24-bit PCM encoded audio in wav format. Transcripts are encoded in UTF-8 in Latin script; they cover approximately 77% of the speech data. Further information about transcription methodology is contained in the documentation accompanying this release. Evaluation data is available from NIST in support of OpenKWS. Samples Please view this audio sample (SPH) and transcript sample (TXT). Updates None at this time.

Creator(s)

Eyal Dubinski

Mary Harper

Jessica Ray

Anton Rytting

Aric Bills

Anne David

Ketty Gann

Michael Kazi

Fred Richardson

Thomas Conners

Jacqui Zwanenburg

Nicolas Malyska

Jennifer Melot

Hanh Le

Jonathan G. Fiscus

Nicolas Malyska

Luanne Dela Cruz

Distributor(s)

Linguistic Data Consortium

Right Holder(s)

Portions © 2015 U.S. Government </br>The U.S. Government acquired this data from Appen Pty Ltd, which assigned the copyright to the data to the U.S. Government.