VIVOS: Vietnamese Speech Corpus for ASR

<strong>VIVOS Corpus</strong> VIVOS is a free Vietnamese speech corpus consisting of 15 hours of recording speech prepared for Automatic Speech Recognition task. The corpus was published by AILAB, a computer science lab of VNUHCM - University of Science, with <strong>Prof. Vu Hai Quan</strong> is the head of. We publish this corpus in hope to attract more scientists to solve Vietnamese speech recognition problems. The corpus should only be used for academic purposes. <strong>License</strong> Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike v4.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (details) <strong>Associated paper</strong> Please cite this paper when using VIVOS corpus for research "A non-expert Kaldi recipe for Vietnamese Speech Recognition System", Hieu-Thi Luong and Hai-Quan Vu, in Proc. <em>WLSI/OIAF4HLT2016</em> (paper) <strong>Contact</strong> [e-mail] <strong>Corpus properties</strong> Speech was recorded in a quiet environment with high quality microphone, speakers were asked to read one sentence at a time. Training Testing Speakers 46 19 Male 22 12 Female 24 7 Utterances 11660 760 Duration 14:55 00:45 Unique Syllables 4617 1692 <br> <strong>Evaluations</strong> The corpus was evaluated using our non-expert recipe for Vietnamese Speech Recognition system which is described in the associated paper. baseline +pitch +tone mGMM 19.66 15.14 14.91 mGMM+MMI 18.08 14.96 13.91 mGMM+SAT 15.79 12.07 12.13 mDNN+SAT 13.34 9.54 9.48 <strong>Notice</strong> This is the official replacement for http://ailab.hcmus.edu.vn/vivos/