Mandarin Chinese Cued Speech Dataset (MCCSD)

Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data, Shenzhen, China
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China

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Introduction

This MCCS dataset is the first large-scale Mandarin Chinese Cued Speech dataset. This dataset covers 23 major categories of scenarios (e.g, communication, transportation and shoping) and 72 subcategories of scenarios (e.g, meeting, dating and introduction). It is recorded by four skilled native Mandarn Chinese Cued Speech cuers with portable cameras on the mobile phones. The Cued Speech videos are recorded with 30fps and 1280x720 format. We provide the raw Cued Speech videos, text file (with 1000 sentences) and corresponding annotations which contains two kind of data annotation. One is continuious video annotation with ELAN, the other is discrete audio annotations with Praat.

DownLoad

This MCCSD contains 1000 Mandarin Chinese Cued Speech sentences. We currently only provide it to universities and research institutions for research purposes. Please complete the following steps to obtain the dataset:

  1. Download The MCCSD Dataset Release Agreement
  2. Complete the agreement appropriately after reading it carefully. Currently the agreement is only accepted to be signed by a full-time staff member (students are not accepted)
  3. Please provide the signed agreement and send it to Prof. Li Liu (avrillliu@hkust-gz.edu.cn)

CS generation

If you are interested in our CS generation work, check out the following links for more details:GitHub

References

If you use this MCCS dataset for your research, please consider citing the following papers:

  1. Cross-Modal Mutual Learning for Cued Speech Recognition. Liu, L., & Liu, L. arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.01083 (2022) LINK
  2. Objective Hand Complexity Comparison between Two Mandarin Chinese Cued Speech Systems. Li Liu, Gang Feng, Xiaoxi Ren, Xianping Ma International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP) (2022) LINK
  3. Re-synchronization using the Hand Preceding Model for Multi-modal Fusion in Automatic Continuous Cued Speech Recognition. Li Liu, Gang Feng, Denis Beautemps, Xiao-Ping Zhang. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (2020) LINK
  4. A Pilot Study on Mandarin Chinese Cued Speech. Li Liu, Gang Feng. American Annals of the Deaf (2019) LINK

Contact

If you have any questions about the dataset and our research works, please feel free to contact us:

Feel free to visit Homepage of Prof. Liu for more details about our group and research topics.