Corpus of the Gail Valley dialect Zila 1.0

  Authors

Žgank, Andrej ; et al.show everyone

Žgank, Andrej ; Donaj, Gregor ; Sereinig, Uši ; Koren-Zwitter, Tatjana ; Boto, Sanja ; Zwitter-Grilc, Sabina ; Kanzian, Martina ; Hren, Karl ; Vidinić, Jasna ; Verdonik, Darinka

  Item identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/11356/2257

 Project URL

https://lingua.mohorjeva.at/zila-digital-zila-digital

 Referenced by

https://doi.org/10.63317/3fhhk948chhm

 Date issued

2026-08-31

 Type

audio, corpus

 Size

100 hours, 206 texts

 Language(s)

Slovenian

 Description

The Zila Speech Corpus is a spoken language resource documenting the Slovenian Gail Valley dialect, an endangered Slovenian minority dialect spoken in Austria. The corpus contains 206 recordings in WAV format, with a total duration of approximately 100 hours and 7 minutes, produced by 74 anonymized speakers. It was created within the LINGUA project to support the development of automatic speech recognition for the Gail Valley dialect, as well as linguistic research, education, corpus search, and long-term dialect documentation and preservation. The corpus includes different types of speech material: private speech, public informal speech, public formal speech, and read speech. The largest part of the corpus consists of private recordings, while the remaining material documents public, institutional, and read speech contexts. The recordings cover topics such as autobiographical narratives, Gail Valley identity, folk tales, local customs and rituals, rural work and farming, family and village networks, local history, memories, and community life. The recordings in WAV format are accompanied by manually prepared, time-aligned transcriptions in Transcriber .trs format. The transcription follows an extended orthographic approach: dialectal morphological and syntactic features, hesitations, fillers, and self-corrections are preserved, while the transcription is not intended as a full phonetic transcription. Personal data in the transcripts are anonymized using the marker [anonim], and the corresponding sections in the audio are masked with a beep before publication. Beside the .trs format, the transcriptions in EXMARaLDA format (.exb, .exs) were also generated. Speaker metadata include anonymized speaker ID, gender, age, first language, bilingualism, dialect information, dialect retention, education, residence information, spontaneity of speech, and notes. Recording metadata include recording and transcription identifiers, language, title, date, source, recording location, genre, speech type, channel, number of speakers, recording device, recording setting, original format, audio quality, length, and notes.

 Publisher

Mohorjeva družba / Hermagoras Verein

 

Slovenian Ethnographic Institute Urban Jarnik

 

University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

 Acknowledgement

European Regional Development Fund within the framework of the Interreg Slovenia–Austria Programme 2021–2027 and the State of Carinthia SI-AT00017, ATU25358305 "INTERREG-Projekt "LINGUA" SI-AT00017"

 Subject(s)

speech database speech recognition endangered dialects spoken corpus

 Collection(s)

CLARIN.SI data & tools

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