Teenage and adult speech in school context: building and processing a corpus of European Portuguese

Ana Isabel Mata, Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista, Julia Hirschberg


Abstract
We present a corpus of European Portuguese spoken by teenagers and adults in school context, CPE-FACES, with an overview of the differential characteristics of high school oral presentations and the challenges this data poses to automatic speech processing. The CPE-FACES corpus has been created with two main goals: to provide a resource for the study of prosodic patterns in both spontaneous and prepared unscripted speech, and to capture inter-speaker and speaking style variations common at school, for research on oral presentations. Research on speaking styles is still largely based on adult speech. References to teenagers are sparse and cross-analyses of speech types comparing teenagers and adults are rare. We expect CPE-FACES, currently a unique resource in this domain, will contribute to filling this gap in European Portuguese. Focusing on disfluencies and phrase-final phonetic-phonological processes we show the impact of teenage speech on the automatic segmentation of oral presentations. Analyzing fluent final intonation contours in declarative utterances, we also show that communicative situation specificities, speaker status and cross-gender differences are key factors in speaking style variation at school.
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L14-1132
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Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)
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May
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2014
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Reykjavik, Iceland
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Hrafn Loftsson, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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3914–3919
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Ana Isabel Mata, Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista, and Julia Hirschberg. 2014. Teenage and adult speech in school context: building and processing a corpus of European Portuguese. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), pages 3914–3919, Reykjavik, Iceland. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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Teenage and adult speech in school context: building and processing a corpus of European Portuguese (Mata et al., LREC 2014)
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