Development and structure of the VariaNTS corpus: A spoken Dutch corpus containing talker and linguistic variability

•The VariaNTS (Variatie in Nederlandse Taal en Sprekers) corpus is a new corpus of spoken Dutch.•The VariaNTS corpus was designed to maximize both linguistic and talker variability.•It contains audio recordings of 1000 items from 11 linguistic subcategories, produced by 8 male and 8 female native sp...

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Published in:Speech communication 2021-03, Vol.127, p.64-72
Main Authors: Arts, Floor, Başkent, Deniz, Tamati, Terrin N.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Afrikaans language
Corpus linguistics
Dutch language
Linguistic variability
Linguistics
Orthography
Perception
Phonotactics
Speech corpus
Speech perception
Speech recognition
Spoken Dutch
Talker variability
Vocabulary development
Word frequency
Word recognition
Words (language)
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Summary:•The VariaNTS (Variatie in Nederlandse Taal en Sprekers) corpus is a new corpus of spoken Dutch.•The VariaNTS corpus was designed to maximize both linguistic and talker variability.•It contains audio recordings of 1000 items from 11 linguistic subcategories, produced by 8 male and 8 female native speakers of standard Dutch.•Materials were developed to be used for broad assessment of speech perception in Dutch clinical and academic settings. Speech perception and spoken word recognition are not only affected by what is being said, but also by who is speaking. Currently, publicly available corpora of spoken Dutch do not offer a wide variety of linguistic materials produced by multiple talkers. The VariaNTS (Variatie in Nederlandse Taal en Sprekers) corpus is a Dutch spoken corpus that was developed to maximize both linguistic and talker variability. It contains 1000 items from 11 linguistic subcategories, recorded by 8 male and 8 female native speakers of standard Dutch. The corpus contains audio recordings, orthographic transcriptions, item-specific details such as word frequencies, neighborhood densities and phonotactic probabilities, and talker details. The VariaNTS corpus aims to provide new materials to be used for broad assessment of speech perception and word recognition in Dutch clinical and academic settings.
ISSN:0167-6393
1872-7182
DOI:10.1016/j.specom.2020.12.006