Authors: Dana Delgado, Kevin Walker, Stephanie Strassel, David Graff, Christopher Caruso

Data source: broadcast news, telephone conversations.

Data type: Sound, Text

Applications: language identification, speech recognition.

LDC number: LDC2024S01.

"Data: Twenty-one native Kurdish speakers living in the continental United States each made a minimum of ten phone calls, lasting up to ten minutes, to a family member or friend living in North America on a topic of their choice. LDC also collected multiple streaming radio and television broadcast programs (narrowband and wideband audio), many of which contained a mix of Kurmanji and Sorani Kurdish. Telephone recordings were collected via LDC's telephone speech collection system as two-channel 8-bit μ-law, 8-KHz sample rate. Broadcast audio was captured as single channel recordings at a sample rate of 16-KHz. All audio is stored in flac-compressed format. Native speaker auditors identified a 5-10 minute span from each broadcast recording for transcription. Full telephone recordings that passed the native speaker audit were transcribed. The four main fields on each line on each line of the transcript files (start_offset, end_offset, speaker_label, transcript_text) are separated by tabs. Each contains a list of time-stamped segments in order according to their start_offset values, with no blank lines. The transcripts are presented as plain-text, tab-delimited files with UTF-8 character encoding. This release includes speaker information, such as gender, year of birth, and language."--LDC online catalog.

Audio in Central Kurdish, Northern Kurdish and Kurdish.

Title from resource home page (LDC website, viewed February, 2024).

Kurdish language > Data processing.

Kurdish language > Spoken Kurdish > Data processing.

Kurdish language > Transcription.

Conversation > Data processing.

Data sets.

Speech corpora.

Sound recordings.

Excerpts.

Linguistic Data Consortium, issuing body.