SPANISH (Spain)

Existing databases and their actors

• Experimental research

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  EEC: EUROM-1

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  National

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  Corpus oral de referencia del espanol contemporaneo (Advanced) ALBAYZIN (Exp. and Appl.)

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  Automatic Speech Recognition PA85/86

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  Construccion de Sistemas de Reconocimiento de Habla Mediante Tecnicas De Aprendizaje Automatico TIC-448/89

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  Industry: TANGORA (IBM, also for other European languages (French, Italian??), but not available)

• Application-oriented: ROARS, POLYGLOT, SUNSTAR (EEC)
• Telephone

Ongoing projects & new initiatives

• Experimental research -- National: ALBAYZIN project, child language project (advanced)
• Application-oriented ONOMASTICA (EEC)
• Telephone SPEECHDAT (EEC): POLYPHONE corpus to be collected by Vocalis.

Conclusion

All actors present. Many universities, research institutes public or privates, national telecom operator involved in the domain. Growing national effort, accompanied by a survey of textual and spoken corpora in Spanish. No corpus is currently available on CD-ROM. Availability and cost information not well-defined.