Corpus : TED-LIUM Release 3
Licences : Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 (attribution/non-commercial/no-derivatives)
Licences : Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 (attribution/non-commercial/no-derivatives)
This is the TED-LIUM corpus release 3,
licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/deed.en).
All talks and text are property of TED Conferences LLC.
This new TED-LIUM release was made through a collaboration between the Ubiqus company and the LIUM (University of Le Mans, France)
Contents:
– 2351 audio talks in NIST sphere format (SPH), including talks from TED-LIUM 2: be careful, same talks but not same audio files (only these audio file must be used with the TED-LIUM 3 STM files)
–> 452 hours of audio
– 2351 aligned automatic transcripts in STM format
– TEDLIUM 2 dev and test data: 19 TED talks in SPH format with corresponding manual transcriptions (cf. ‘legacy’ distribution below).
– Dictionary with pronunciations (159848 entries), same file as the one included in TED-LIUM 2
– Selected monolingual data for language modeling from WMT12 publicly available corpora: these files come from the TED-LIUM 2 release, but have been modified to get a tokenization more relevant for English language
Two corpus distributions:
More details are given in this paper:
François Hernandez, Vincent Nguyen, Sahar Ghannay, Natalia Tomashenko, and Yannick Estève, “TED-LIUM 3: twice as much data and corpus repartition for experiments on speaker adaptation”, submitted to the 20th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM 2018), September 2018, Leipzig, Germany
You can download it (~51GB) here: https://projets-lium.univ-lemans.fr/ted-lium/release3/
SPH format info:
Channels: 1
Sample Rate: 16000
Precision: 16-bit
Bit Rate: 256k
Sample Encoding: 16-bit Signed Integer PCM