ELRA adds GlobalPhone database

The European Language Resource Association (ELRA) has added new speech language resources to its Language Resources Catalogue. The GlobalPhone database is a multilingual speech and text database collected at Karlsruhe University, Germany, and covers 15 languages: Arabic (Modern Standard Arabic), Chinese (Mandarin), Chinese (Shanghai), Croatian, Czech, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Spanish (Latin American), Swedish, Tamil and Turkish.

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