The BDSONS Database is a French - speech database with two subsets: evaluation and acoustic modelling. The Corpora consist of 32 speakers: 16 male and 16 female (7 CD-ROMs of approximately 3,5 Gigabytes), Phonetic labelling (partly) available on additional floppies, of the following data: "Evaluation" (32 speakers): adjustment: 5 sentences and 54 bi-syllabic "logatomes", numbers, digits, letters, and names (spelled in isolation and in connected speech). "Acoustic" (12 speakers): Words: 600 CVCV including 20 consonant and semi-consonant and vowels /a/, /i/, /u/ ; 200 consonant clusters; rhyme tests for consonant and vowels (pairs and triplets), sentences: 52 phonetically balanced sentences, 44 nasal sentences, 192 sentences including real words in French with 16 consonants and 12 vowels. Phonetic labelling for a subset of the data is available on floppy disk.

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