european language resources association european language resources association elra news new catalogue new resources elra happy announce update catalogue language resources language engineering research currently consists 1 spoken resources 39 databases several languages recordings microphone telephone continuous speech isolated words phonetic dictionaries etc 2 written resources 14 monolingual multilingual corpora 28 monolingual lexica around 60 multilingual lexica linguistic software platform grammars development platform 3 terminological resources 360 databases wide range domains several languages catalan danish english french german italian latin polish portuguese spanish turkish would like inform new resource itcirst italy available via elra brief description given herein elras0039 apasci itcirst apasci italian acoustic database recorded insulated room sennheiser mkh 416 microphone includes ca 16090 utterances digits 58924 words 2191 different words 641 minutes speech data uttered 100 italian speakers 50 male 50 female uttered 1 calibration sentence 4 sentences wide phonetic coverage 15 20 sentences wide diphonic coverage six speakers 3 male 3 female uttered 26 occurrences calibration sentence 104 sentences wide phonetic coverage 390 sentences wide diphonic coverage 54 speakers 42 male 12 female repeated 20 times 10 isolated digits linguistic annotations database given phonemic orthographic levels database aims design train evaluate continuous speech recognition systems speaker independent speaker adaptive speaker dependent multispeakers also designed research acoustic linguistic models research new acoustic parameters speech recognition format 16 bit linear standard nist sphere sampling rate 16 khz medium cdrom information please contact elra elda 87 avenue italie 75013 paris tel 33 1 45 86 53 00 fax 33 1 45 86 44 88 e mail infoelra calva net http www icp grenet fr elra home html khalid choukri elra elda tel 33 1 45 86 53 00 fax 33 1 45 86 44 88 87 avenue italie 75013 paris email elra calvanet calvacom fr web http www icp grenet fr elra home html