Datasets:

language-and-voice-lab
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malromur_asr

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ task_ids: []
   - [Data Splits](#data-splits)
 - [About the project](#about-the-project)
   - [About the Malromur corpus](#about-the-malromur-corpus)
-  - [The Almannarómur project](#the-almannaromur-project)
   - [The data opened](#the-data-opened)
 - [Additional Information](#additional-information)
   - [Other Known Limitations](#other-known-limitations)
@@ -111,11 +111,11 @@ To load an specific portion please see the above section "Example Usage".
 ## About the project
-#### About the Malromur corpus
 [Reykjavík University](http://en.ru.is/) and [The Icelandic Centre for Language Technology](http://iclt.is/) collected data for an Icelandic speech corpus in collaboration with Google. The data is available on this webpage for everybody, and presents an opportunity to develop language technology tools for Icelandic such as a speech recognizer. Voice samples from 563 individuals were recorded with Android G1 smartphones for a total of 152 hours of speech. In total 127,286 voice samples were recorded. Of those 108,568 were considered useful and 18,718 were discarded. The 108,568 good voice samples can be downloaded from this webpage.
-#### The Almannarómur project
 The Almannarómur project was performed during the years 2011 and 2012. With the support of Google, work was performed at that time to collect voice samples for various languages in order to develop speech recognition tools, and to make the data available for the research and development of language technology tools. The goal of the Almannarómur project was to develop a database of spoken sentences to aid the development of automatic speech recognition for Icelandic. The database can also be used in the development of many other types of spoken language technologies.
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ The voice samples were collected in three phases. The first phase started on Jul
 A client-software was set up on the smartphones that enabled downloading of Icelandic utterances and the uploading of speech recordings. Google technical staff used the voice samples together with other Icelandic language resources (large text corpora to make a language model) to develop a speech recognizer for Icelandic for Android smartphones and the Google search engine. These tools were announced in the fall of 2012.
-#### The data opened
 It was decided to make the database with the voice samples open source to be used for the development of speech recognizers and other speech technology tools. To make the voice samples as useful as possible, it was considered necessary to validate them. In the summer of 2014, a student at the [University of Iceland](https://english.hi.is/) listened to 69,000 voice samples to determine whether the spoken text agreed with the text to be read. At the end of the summer, 57,000 voice samples had been validated to be good and were made available on this webpage. During the summer of 2015, another student listened to more voice samples, and during the year 2016, employees at the [Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies](https://english.arnastofnun.is/) finished listening to the voice samples.
@@ -141,15 +141,15 @@ An Icelandic NGO, Almannrómur, was established April 1st 2013. The aim of the N
 For further information see the articles [“Almannarómur: An Open Icelandic Speech Corpus”](http://www.mica.edu.vn/sltu2012/files/proceedings/15.pdf) and [“Málrómur: A Manually Verified Corpus of Recorded Icelandic Speech”](http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/131/029/ecp17131029.pdf) (see above).
-### Aditional information
-#### Other Known Limitations
 "The Málrómur Corpus" by the Language and Voice Laboratory (LVL) at the Reykjavik University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License with the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
-#### Licensing Information
 [CC-BY-4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
-#### Citation Information
 ```
 @inproceedings{steingrimsson2017malromur,
   title={Málrómur: A manually verified corpus of recorded Icelandic speech},
@@ -160,6 +160,6 @@ For further information see the articles [“Almannarómur: An Open Icelandic Sp
 }
 ```
-#### Contributions
 The Almannarómur project was partially realized because of the generous help received from Google and its employees. Google provided the smart-phones for the data recording effort and the server technology used to host the database.

   - [Data Splits](#data-splits)
 - [About the project](#about-the-project)
   - [About the Malromur corpus](#about-the-malromur-corpus)
+  - [The Almannaromur project](#the-almannaromur-project)
   - [The data opened](#the-data-opened)
 - [Additional Information](#additional-information)
   - [Other Known Limitations](#other-known-limitations)
 ## About the project
+### About the Malromur corpus
 [Reykjavík University](http://en.ru.is/) and [The Icelandic Centre for Language Technology](http://iclt.is/) collected data for an Icelandic speech corpus in collaboration with Google. The data is available on this webpage for everybody, and presents an opportunity to develop language technology tools for Icelandic such as a speech recognizer. Voice samples from 563 individuals were recorded with Android G1 smartphones for a total of 152 hours of speech. In total 127,286 voice samples were recorded. Of those 108,568 were considered useful and 18,718 were discarded. The 108,568 good voice samples can be downloaded from this webpage.
+### The Almannaromur project
 The Almannarómur project was performed during the years 2011 and 2012. With the support of Google, work was performed at that time to collect voice samples for various languages in order to develop speech recognition tools, and to make the data available for the research and development of language technology tools. The goal of the Almannarómur project was to develop a database of spoken sentences to aid the development of automatic speech recognition for Icelandic. The database can also be used in the development of many other types of spoken language technologies.
 A client-software was set up on the smartphones that enabled downloading of Icelandic utterances and the uploading of speech recordings. Google technical staff used the voice samples together with other Icelandic language resources (large text corpora to make a language model) to develop a speech recognizer for Icelandic for Android smartphones and the Google search engine. These tools were announced in the fall of 2012.
+### The data opened
 It was decided to make the database with the voice samples open source to be used for the development of speech recognizers and other speech technology tools. To make the voice samples as useful as possible, it was considered necessary to validate them. In the summer of 2014, a student at the [University of Iceland](https://english.hi.is/) listened to 69,000 voice samples to determine whether the spoken text agreed with the text to be read. At the end of the summer, 57,000 voice samples had been validated to be good and were made available on this webpage. During the summer of 2015, another student listened to more voice samples, and during the year 2016, employees at the [Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies](https://english.arnastofnun.is/) finished listening to the voice samples.
 For further information see the articles [“Almannarómur: An Open Icelandic Speech Corpus”](http://www.mica.edu.vn/sltu2012/files/proceedings/15.pdf) and [“Málrómur: A Manually Verified Corpus of Recorded Icelandic Speech”](http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/131/029/ecp17131029.pdf) (see above).
+## Aditional information
+### Other Known Limitations
 "The Málrómur Corpus" by the Language and Voice Laboratory (LVL) at the Reykjavik University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License with the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
+### Licensing Information
 [CC-BY-4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
+### Citation Information
 ```
 @inproceedings{steingrimsson2017malromur,
   title={Málrómur: A manually verified corpus of recorded Icelandic speech},
 }
 ```
+### Contributions
 The Almannarómur project was partially realized because of the generous help received from Google and its employees. Google provided the smart-phones for the data recording effort and the server technology used to host the database.