GlobalPhone Multilingual Text & Speech Database GLOBALPHONE false Scripted Speech Global coverage Multilanguage 450 hours 1996; 1997; 1998; 1999; 2000; 2001; 2002; 2003; 2004; 2005; 2006; 2007; 2008; 2009; 2010; 2011 Global Phone multilingual corpus, languages can be sold separately or in multi-language packages. Tiered package pricing available. ; GLOBALPHONE provides multilingual speech and text data in 20 Languages: Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese-Mandarin, Chinese-Shanghai, Croatian, Czech, French, German, Hausa, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese. ; Dataset is fully transcribed and the transcription is available both in original script and in Romanized form; In each language, news article sentences were read by about 100 native speakers. The articles cover national and international political news, as well as economic news from 1995-2011. The speech is available in 16bit, 16kHz mono quality recorded with a close-speaking microphone and the same recording equipment was used for all languages. ; Developed in collaboration with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) News (read speech, national/international political and economic news articles) Mono 16 wav Microphone Mixed (quiet home/office, public, outdoor) GlobalPhone