Construction and Evaluation of a Large In-Car Speech Corpus

Kazuya TAKEDA
Hiroshi FUJIMURA
Katsunobu ITOU
Nobuo KAWAGUCHI
Shigeki MATSUBARA
Fumitada ITAKURA

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems   Vol.E88-D    No.3    pp.553-561
Publication Date: 2005/03/01
Online ISSN: 
DOI: 10.1093/ietisy/e88-d.3.553
Print ISSN: 0916-8532
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Corpus-Based Speech Technologies)
Category: Speech Corpora and Related Topics
Keyword: 
speech corpus,  in-car speech recognition,  perplexity,  SNR,  

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Summary: 
In this paper, we discuss the construction of a large in-car spoken dialogue corpus and the result of its analysis. We have developed a system specially built into a Data Collection Vehicle (DCV) which supports the synchronous recording of multichannel audio data from 16 microphones that can be placed in flexible positions, multichannel video data from 3 cameras, and vehicle related data. Multimedia data has been collected for three sessions of spoken dialogue with different modes of navigation, during approximately a 60 minute drive by each of 800 subjects. We have characterized the collected dialogues across the three sessions. Some characteristics such as sentence complexity and SNR are found to differ significantly among the sessions. Linear regression analysis results also clarify the relative importance of various corpus characteristics.

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