Dieter Maurer¹, Christian d'Heureuse¹, Heidy Suter¹,
Volker Dellwo², Daniel Friedrichs², Thayabaran Kathiresan<sup>2

1</sup>Institute for the Performing Arts and Film, Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland
²Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Email: dieter.maurer@zhdk.ch

The Zurich Corpus Version 1.0 comprises:

Utterances of 70 speakers; 46 nonprofessional speakers, children, women and men, and 24 professional actors/actresses and singers of straight theatre, contemporary singing, and European classical singing.

Circa 34 600 sounds of the long Standard German vowels /i-y-e-ø-ɛ-a-o-u/ produced with varying basic production parameters such as phonation type (voiced, breathy, creaky, whispered), vocal effort (medium, low, high, shouted), fundamental frequency, vowel context (V and sVsV context) and production style (speaking or singing styles).

In addition, for each speaker, a text read and, for professionals, songs/arias are also included.