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We are happy to announce that the following datasets are now available at reduced fees until 31 March 2026.

*Chinese Mandarin (South) database* https://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-S0397/**

ISLRN: 503-886-852-083-2 http://www.islrn.org/resources/503-886-852-083-2

This database contains the recordings of 1000 Chinese Mandarin speakers from Southern China (500 males and 500 females), from 18 to 60 years’ old, recorded in quiet studios. Recordings were made through microphone headsets and consist of 341 hours of audio data (about 30 minutes per speaker), stored in .WAV files as sequences of 48 KHz Mono, 16 bits, Linear PCM.

*Chinese Mandarin (North) database* https://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-S0398/**

ISLRN: 353-548-770-894-7 http://www.islrn.org/resources/353-548-770-894-7

This database contains the recordings of 500 Chinese Mandarin speakers from Northern China (250 males and 250 females), from 18 to 60 years’ old, recorded in quiet studios. Recordings were made through microphone headsets and consist of 172 hours of audio data (about 30 minutes per speaker), stored in .WAV files as sequences of 48 KHz Mono, 16 bits, Linear PCM.

*Chinese Kids Speech database (Lower Grade)* https://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-S0496/**

ISLRN: 369-011-475-593-5 http://www.islrn.org/resources/369-011-475-593-5

The Chinese Kids Speech database (Lower Grade) contains the total recordings of 184 Chinese Kids speakers (98 males and 86 females), from 6 to 10 years' old, recorded in quiet rooms using smartphones. 1,426 sentences were used. Recordings were made through smartphones and audio data stored in .wav files as sequences of 16KHz Mono, 16 bits, Linear PCM.

*Chinese Kids Speech database (Upper Grade)* https://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-S0497/**

ISLRN: 993-024-988-227-0 http://www.islrn.org/resources/993-024-988-227-0

The Chinese Kids Speech database (Upper Grade) contains the total recordings of 161 Chinese Kids speakers (71 males and 90 females), from 10 to 12 years’ old recorded in quiet rooms using smartphone. 1,859 sentences were used. Recordings were made through smartphones and audio data stored in .wav files as sequences of 16KHz Mono, 16 bits, Linear PCM.

*Japanese Kids Speech database (Lower Grade) https://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-S0411/*

ISLRN: 579-088-185-591-2 http://www.islrn.org/resources/579-088-185-591-2

The Japanese Kids Speech database (Lower Grade) contains the total recordings of 179 Japanese Kids speakers (71 males and 108 females), from 6 to 9 years' old (first, second and third graders in elementary school), recorded in quiet rooms using smartphones. 1019 sentence were used. Recordings were made through smartphones and audio data stored in .wav files as sequences of 16KHz Mono, 16 bits, Linear PCM.

*Japanese Kids Speech database (Upper Grade) https://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-S0412/*

ISLRN:846-295-092-462-7 http://www.islrn.org/resources/846-295-092-462-7

The Japanese Kids Speech database (Upper Grade) contains the total recordings of 232 Japanese Kids speakers (104 males and 128 females), from 9 to 13 years’ old (fourth, fifth and sixth graders in elementary school), recorded in quiet rooms using smartphones. 1018 sentences were used. Recordings were made through smartphones and audio data stored in .wav files as sequences of 16KHz Mono, 16 bits, Linear PCM.

For more information on the catalogue or if you would like to enquire about having your resources distributed by ELRA, please *contact us* mailto:contact@elda.org.

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