The Vienna Prosodic Speech Corpus: Purpose, Content and Encoding

This paper presents a corpus of spoken German especially designed for the investigation of prosodic properties of speech. After a short discussion of the content and set-up of the corpus, we describe in detail the additional linguistic information, introduced into the corpus by labelling and annotation. In this project, both qualitative and quantitative methods have been used for the acquisition of data. Our main concern is the development of a well-defined and transparent scheme for the structuring of this heterogeneous information. A second task is to incorporate all these data generated by different tools with different data-formats into a single data-base.