Glissando: a corpus for multidisciplinary prosodic studies in Spanish and Catalan

Literature review on prosody reveals the lack of corpora for prosodic studies in Catalan and Spanish. In this paper, we present a corpus intended to fill this gap. The corpus comprises two distinct data-sets, a news subcorpus and a dialogue subcorpus, the latter containing either conversational or task-oriented speech. More than 25 h were recorded by twenty eight speakers per language. Among these speakers, eight were professional (four radio news broadcasters and four advertising actors). The entire material presented here has been transcribed, aligned with the J. M. Garrido S. Rustullet Y. Laplaza Computational Linguistics Group (GLiCom), Department of Translation and Language Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain J. M. Garrido e-mail: [email protected] D. Escudero (&) V. Cardeñoso C. González C. Vivaracho Department of Computer Sciences, Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain e-mail: [email protected] L. Aguilar C. de-la-Mota Department of Spanish Philology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain E. Rodero O. Larrea Department of Communication, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain F. Vizcaı́no M. Cabrera Department of Modern Languages, Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain E. Estebas Department of Modern Languages, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain A. Bonafonte Department of Signal Theory and Communications, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain 123 Lang Resources & Evaluation (2013) 47:945–971 DOI 10.1007/s10579-012-9213-0