Abstract
We present a new speech database containing 18.5 hours of annotated radio broadcasts in the Frisian language. Frisian is mostly spoken in the province Fryslaˆn and it is the second official language of the Netherlands. The recordings are collected from the archives of Omrop Fryslaˆn, the regional public broadcaster of the province Fryslaˆn. The database covers almost a 50-year time span. The native speakers of Frisian are mostly bilingual and often code-switch in daily conversations due to the extensive influence of the Dutch language. Considering the longitudinal and code-switching nature of the data, an appropriate annotation protocol has been designed and the data is manually annotated with the orthographic transcription, speaker identities, dialect information, code-switching details and background noise/music information
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) 2016 |
| Place of Publication | Portorož, Slovenia |
| Publisher | European Language Resources Association (ELRA) |
| Pages | 4666-4669 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9782951740891 |
| Publication status | Published - 2016 |
| Externally published | Yes |