On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Nico Möller <nmoeller@uos.de> wrote: > Hi guys, > > We have got a request a hopefully some of you are willing to help us. We are > currently studying cognitive science at the university of osnabrueck and > participating in a course called "practical natural language processing", > which is some kind of semester project in lingusitics. Our group decided to > deal with some speech recognition and because lojban has so nice phonetic > features we choose it as our target language, Unfortunately we discovered > that there is very few (usable) lojban audio data on the web, but we > actually need huge amounts of them to feed our training algorithms. It would > be really cool if some of you could actually send us some audio data we can > work with, if you do so please provide them in the following format: It looks from the thread like you've got a bit of Lojban audio available, but having more voices will probably benefit your project, yes? The attached zip file is full of me speaking in Lojban. Note that I have a nonstandard-but-not-incorrect habit of pronouncing the Lojban .y'y (apostrophe) /h/ as [θ], which my in first batch of recordings I tried to avoid but found myself stumbling over every word with an .y'y in it. The sentences are an excerpt from lapoi pelxu ku'o trajynobli, and a transcript is as follows: (kydypa) ni'oda'o ko'a goi so'e le cpare na'o cuxne le frili pluta mu'inaibo lu le dargu pe lo xamgu bangu cu kargu li'u ka'u (kydyre) .i li'a le frili pluta co'u ranji gi'enai tcena le cmana jipno (kydyci) .ije go'i ja'e lenu ko'a za'o litru lo cuksmi (kydyvo) .ije ko'a co'anai djuno la'edi'u (kydymu) .i ku'i ma'a na'o jifsruma ledu'u mintu fele ba'e zumcpare fale broda cei pupyjmina be lo cpare cabra (kydyxa) .i ba le mo'u broda ku ku su'a krici ledu'u ma'a ca klama vuga'u le cmana salpo Craig B. Daniel / .kreig.daniyl.
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