A Spanish multispeaker database of esophageal speech

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Luis Serrano, Sneha Raman, Inma Hernáez Rioja, Eva Navas Cordón, Jon Sánchez, Ibon Saratxaga

Published: 01 Jan 2021, Last Modified: 20 May 2025Comput. Speech Lang. 2021EveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY-SA 4.0
Abstract: Highlights•A novel database of Spanish esophageal voices designed for developing new software for speakers with this pathology.•Includes recordings of 100 sentences from 30 esophageal speakers. The size and variety of the database makes it unique.•Includes the phonetic labels of the recordings. Automatic phonetic labelling procedure is described.•The main acoustic characteristics of the voices are described and compared with a reduced set of healthy voices.•The database has successfully been used for reducing Automatic Speech Recognition errors for esophageal speakers.