RECORDING PROTOCOLL FOR PTDB-TUG
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Recording Sessions
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Speaker ID  Recording Date
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 F01         18.01.2010
 F02         17.12.2009
 F03         21.12.2009
 F04         19.01.2010
 F05         22.12.2009
 F06         20.01.2010
 F07         20.01.2010
 F08         13.01.2010
 F09         18.01.2010
 F10         22.01.2010
 M01         15.12.2009
 M02         20.01.2010
 M03         20.01.2010
 M04         22.12.2009
 M05         08.01.2010
 M06         23.12.2009
 M07         12.01.2010
 M08         22.01.2010
 M09         25.01.2010
 M10         19.01.2010


Data structure
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Recording ID = [Data category]_[ Speaker ID]_[Sentence ID]

Data category = {   mic ... microphone signal
                  | lar ... laryngograph signal
                  | ref ... reference pitch trajectory }

Speaker ID = [Script number][Sex]

Script number = { 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 }

Sex = { F ... female | M ... male }

Sentence ID = {   sa[{1,2}] ... dialect sentences
                | sx[{3,4,5, .. ,452}] ... phonetically-compact sentences
                | si[{453,454,455, .. ,2342}] ... phonetically-diverse sentences }


Environmental conditions
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  - Recording studio, Institute of Broadband Communications at 
         Graz University of Technology
  - Background noise of the recording Laptop, separated by an absorbing wall


Technical recording conditions 
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Both, the speaker and the supervisor were sitting in the recording room and 
were looking at their own screen. The supervisor controlled and monitored the 
recording procedure with the help of the recording software SpeechRecorder and 
headphones. The speaker was equipped with the headset microphone and the neck 
band with the laryngograph electrodes and had to read the displayed sentence.


Equipment
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  - Computer:          IBM laptop, type 2366 & SpeechRecorder software
  - Microphone:        AKG HC 577 L headset microphone
  - Laryngograph:      Portable Laryngograph
  - Recording device:  Firewire recording interface Presonus Firebox


Technical specifications of recorded signals
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  - sampling rate: 48 kHz
  - resolution: 16 bits
  - type of encoding: signed PCM
  - byte order type: little endian


Further recording specifications
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  - Placement and distance to microphone: 1-2cm from the corner of the mouth
  - Type of Prompting: screen
  - Supervisor presence: yes
  - Type of speech: read