Voice Commands in Canadian French (Youth)
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Overview
Title
Voice Commands in Canadian French (Youth)
Categories
Speech, Voice commands
Published Date
September 2019
Description
This data set contains recordings of voice commands in Canadian French (fr_CA) of 50 participants of age 6-14. The participants recorded their voices remotely using Robson, our in-house platform solution. Each participant has recorded on average 71 utterances (minimum 60, maximum 74) of "Alexa". Recordings are grouped by participant IDs and can be mapped to the phrase text. The data set comes with a complete phrase list and speaker metadata.
Data Set Details
Audio Sampling Rate
The number of times the audio is sampled per second, usually measured in kilohertz.
16kHz
Bit Rate
706 kb/s (constant)
Bit Depth
16 bits
Format
WAV
Encoding
pcm_s16le
Channels
1
Data Set Demographics
Country
The country in which the data was collected.
Canada
Language
The language the participant uses in the data set.
French
Region/Dialect
The regional accent that is used in the data set.
Français québécois - dialectes de louest (Montréal, Sherbrooke, Trois-Rivières) Français ontarien - Nord et sud Français québécois - dialectes de lest (région de Québec) et du nord Quebec French - Western Central Dialect (Montreal, Sherbrooke, Trois-Rivières...) Français des provinces de louest - Saskatchewan, Alberta, Colombie-Britannique, Territoires du Nord-Ouest
Gender
The gender breakdown of data set participants.
46.0 % Female, 54.0 % Male
Age
The age distribution of data set participants.
6-14 years old, average 11 years old, median 11 years old
Number of Speakers
The total number of different voices in the data set.
50
Audio Sample
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