Spoken Language Resources at LUKS of the University of Ljubljana

This paper presents the Slovene-language spoken resources that were acquired at the Laboratory of Artificial Perception, Systems and Cybernetics (LUKS) at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana over the past ten years. The resources consist of:• isolated-spoken-word corpora designed for phonetic research of the Slovene spoken language;• read-speech corpora from dialogues relating to air flight information;• isolated-word corpora, designed for studying the Slovene spoken diphthongs;• Slovene diphone corpora used for text-to-speech synthesis systems;• a weather forecast speech database, as an attempt to capture radio and television broadcast news in the Slovene language; and• read- and spontaneous-speech corpora used to study the effects of the psycho physical conditions of the speakers on their speech characteristics.All the resources are accompanied by relevant text transcriptions, lexicons and various segmentation labels. The read-speech corpora relating to the air flight information domain also are annotated prosodically and semantically. The words in the orthographic transcription were automatically tagged for their lemma and morphosyntactic description. Many of the mentioned speech resources are freely available for basic research purposes in speech technology and linguistics. In this paper we describe all the resources in more detail and give a brief description of their use in the spoken language technology products developed at LUKS.