Speech corpus - Harvard - edited, end-pointed, zero-padded audio

Demonte, Philippa

Abstract

High quality (sampling rate: 48 kHz; 32-bit rate) digital audio recording of the Harvard speech corpus in its entirety (720 phonetically-balanced sentences). Recorded December 2018 at the University of Salford with a female native British English speaker.

Version: edited into individual sentences, end-pointed, and zero-padded, so all are 5 seconds in duration.

Sentence .wav files organised into folders by Harvard speech corpus list.

For full details of the recording, see:
* harvard_201218_British_English_recording.txt
* harvard.txt

For the Matlab scripts, see:
* EndPoint.m
* zeropad.m

• Online Publication Date: Mar 28, 2019
• Publication Date: Mar 28, 2019
• Deposit Date: Mar 12, 2025
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.17866/rd.salford.7862186.v1
• Publisher URL: https://salford.figshare.com/articles/media/Speech_corpus_-_Harvard_-_edited_end-pointed_zero-padded_audio/7862186
• Collection Date: Mar 28, 2019