Mandarin-English code-switching speech corpus in South-East Asia: SEAME

摘要

This paper introduces the South East Asia Mandarin-English corpus, a 63-h spontaneous Mandarin-English code-switching transcribed speech corpus suitable for LVCSR and language change detection/identification research. The corpus is recorded under unscripted interview and conversational settings from 157 Singaporean and Malaysian speakers who spoke a mixture of Mandarin and English within a single sentence. About 82 % of the transcribed utterances are intra-sentential code-switching speech and th