Repeated Harvard Sentence Prompts corpus version 0.5

The REHASP corpus contains sentence prompts repeated several times by a single talker. These recordings can be used to investigate the acoustic variability of natural speech. Version 0.5 of the corpus contains 30 different sentence prompts, each repeated 40 times, for a total of 1200 recordings, all freely available under a permissive license. A larger corpus is in preparation. This document provides meta-information about the REHASP 0.5 database release, including its creation, its contents, and its use. The document is laid out as follows: Section 2 Corpus availability and licensing conditions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Page 1 Section 3 List of files and folders included in the release . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 2 Section 4 Specification of the prompts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Page 2 Section 5 Specification of the talker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 2 Section 6 Specification of the recording conditions and procedure . . . . . Page 3 Section 7 Specification of the post-processing performed on the data. .Page 3 Section 8 Specification of the data format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 4 Section 9 Contact information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Page 4 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Page 5