BABEL Polish database

Full Official Name: BABEL Polish database
Submission date: Jan. 24, 2014, 4:17 p.m.

The BABEL Polish Database is a speech database that was produced by a research consortium funded by the European Union under the COPERNICUS programme (COPERNICUS Project 1304). The project began in March 1995 and was completed in December 1998. The objective was to create a database of languages of Central and Eastern Europe in parallel to the EUROM1 databases produced by the SAM Project (funded by the ESPRIT programme). The BABEL consortium included six partners from Central and Eastern Europe (who had the major responsibility of planning and carrying out the recording and labelling) and six from Western Europe (whose role was mainly to advise and in some cases to act as host to BABEL researchers). The five databases collected within the project concern the Bulgarian, Estonian, Hungarian, Polish, and Romanian languages. The Polish database consists of the basic "common" set which is: • The Many Talker Set: 30 males, 30 females; each to read 100 numbers, 3 connected passages and 5 “filler” sentences (or 4 passages if no fillers needed). • The Few Talker Set: 5 males, 5 females, normally selected from the above group: each to read 5 blocks of 100 numbers, 15 passages and 25 filler sentences ( or 20 passages if fillers not needed), and 5 lists of syllables. • The Very Few Talker Set: 1 male, 1 female, selected from many-talker set: 5 blocks of syllables, with and without carrier sentences.

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