The RepTask “Interpreted speech” corpus consists in recordings realized through several different elicitation protocols:
The Rep Task “Interpreted speech” corpus was constituted in order to study prosodic phenomena fulfilling a semantic-pragmatic or expressive function (ex: focus marking, emphasis) and evaluate the influence of type of speech (spontaneous, read, interpreted) on their realization.
Click below to listen to samples of each type of speech:
spontaneous extract 1 extract 2
interpretation extract 1 extract 2
Content of the corpus:
Spontaneous | Reading | Interpretation | |
Text A | Spontaneous AThis recording is taken from the CID corpus (Corpus of Interactional Data). It can be accessed on the ORTOLANG database (inscription pre-required). Go to: Table des matières > Détails and choose the file <AG_YM-15-30.wav>. The sample selected for the Rep Task “Interpreted speech” corpus is between 4:55 and 7:35. | Reading A1 | Interpretation A1 |
Reading A2 | Interpretation A2 | ||
Text B | Spontaneous B | Reading B1 | Interpretation B1 |
Reading B2 | Interpretation B2 |
The corpus also contains “line runs” (the speakers memorize the text and pronounce it in a neutral way, without expressivity):
Also downloadable:
Download the entire corpus (27 Mo)
Information about the recordings (number of words and syllables, speakers, recording conditions):
|
number of words |
number of syllables |
speaker |
material |
location |
format |
Spontaneous A |
533 |
691 |
male |
head-mounted microphone |
quiet room with minimum background noise |
wav 44.1 kHz 16 bits |
Spontaneous B |
606 |
842 |
female |
H2 Zoom |
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Reading A1 |
526 |
693 |
male |
Rode NT1-A |
soundproof room |
|
Interpretation A1 |
521 |
685 |
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Reading A2 |
523 |
690 |
male |
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Interpretation A2 |
524 |
687 |
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Reading B1 |
577 |
840 |
female |
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Interpretation B1 |
582 |
856 |
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Reading B2 |
620 |
904 |
female |
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Interpretation B2 |
631 |
912 |
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Total |
5643 |
7800 |
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References:
Godement-Berline, R. (submitted), « Using a replication task to study prosodic highlighting », in Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2016, 30 mai-3 juin 2016, Boston, Etats-Unis.
Godement-Berline, R. (to appear), La focalisation prosodique dans la parole interprétée en français. Thèse de doctorat. Université Paris Diderot.
Financingt: Labex EFL, axis 7: Experimental Methods and Epistemology
Thanks to: Loïc Liégeois, Johan Ferguth, Xingjia Rachel Shen