We present the design and development of a South African directory enquiries corpus. It contains audio and orthographic transcriptions of a wide range of South African names produced by first-language speakers of four languages, namely Afrikaans, English, isiZulu and Sesotho. Useful as a resource to understand the effect of name language and speaker language on pronunciation, this is the first corpus to also aim to identify the “intended language”: an implicit assumption with regard to word origin made by the speaker of the name. We describe the design, collection, annotation, and verification of the corpus. This includes an analysis of the algorithms used to tag the corpus with meta information that may be beneficial to pronunciation modelling tasks.

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南非目录查询（SADE）名称语料库

我们介绍南非目录查询语料库的设计和开发。它包含由南非语，南非语，英语，伊斯祖鲁语和塞索托语四种语言的母语使用者制作的各种南非名字的音频和正字转录。作为了解地名语言和说话者语言对发音的影响的有用资源，这是第一个旨在识别“目标语言”的语料库：这是对由该名称的说话者做出的词源的隐含假设。我们描述了语料库的设计，收集，注释和验证。这包括对用于用元信息标记语料库的算法的分析，这可能对语音建模任务有益。