Speech databases covering 18 languages will be created. The majority of the European languages, as well as the Chinese and Japanese languages, are part of the SPEECON project.

If you are interested in learning more about the Speecon project, you may consult the Speecon Web site at the following address : www.spechdat.org/speecon/index.html

ELDA is responsible for the French recordings and is in charge of supervising the recordings for the Italian and Swedish languages. For the three languages (French, Italian & Swedish), 600 speakers, distributed in 6 dialectal regions (in each country), will be recruited. The recordings will then take place in 5 different environments (entertainment, office, public place, car, children room).

ELDA will provide the linguistic data to be used for the development of voice-controlled products.

Start Date : February 2000 (the speech data collection only started from June 2001)

Duration : 3 1/2 years

Contact ELDA

Khalid Choukri, ELDA managing director
E-mail : send an email

Niklas Paulsson, project manager
E-mail : send an email

ELDA
55-57 rue Brillat Savarin
75013 Paris (France)
Tel : +33 1 43 13 33 33
Fax : +33 1 43 13 33 30,

Coordinator

  Siemens AG

Consortium Partners

  Daimler Chrysler
  Lernout & Hauspie
  Philips Speech Processing
  Temic Telefunken
  Ericsson
  Natural Speech Communication
  Panasonic
  IBM
  Nokia
  Sony

Sub-contractors

  ELDA
  Auditech
  UPC
  Appen
  Nordisk Spräkteknologi

Supporting organisations

  ELDA
  SPEX