IS10 Paralinguistic Challenge
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AGENDER Corpus (Age & Gender)
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= This archive contains the files for the AGENDER corpus. =


There are two directories with raw wave files:
  (the .raw files are 8 kHz (<-- !! NOTE: This is the corrected value, the original Readme was wrong!) , 16 bit signed PCM, mono)

  wav_test           (Test set, blinded)
  wav_traindevel     (Train and development sets)
  
Which files belong to which set (train/devel) can be deduced from these file lists (which also contain the age & gender annotations):

trainSampleList_train.txt : File list and annotations for the trainig set
trainSampleList_devel.txt : File list and annotations for the development set

  Format (each line): 
    File_name ID SpeakerID age gender(m|f|x)

The baseline feature set is contained in the three files IS10.agender.*.arff for the training, development, and test set. Annotations are provided in the training and development arff files for age, agegroup, and gender. (Please note, the agegroup is the first digit of the SpeakerID, range is 1-7). The annotations in the test set arff file are blinded by '?' characters.
  
Please note: in the ARFF files the 'name' attribute differs from the filenames as follows:
Where the file name is 1006/1/a11006s14.raw - for example - (i.e. the file is in the directory 1006/1), the arff file contains '1006_1_a11006s14' as name tag (i.e. / replaced by _ and the file extension .raw removed)


The openEAR configuration files as well as openEAR binaries for linux and windows are to be found in the 'openEAR_config' directory. For more information on openEAR/openSMILE, please obtain an openEAR release from http://www.openaudio.eu. This release will contain documentation to get you started in using the provided binaries and config files. Please note, that the config files do only run with the provided binaries or the current SVN version of openSMILE (found at sourceforge.net), they do not work with the openEAR-0.1.0 release (However, you are advised to get this release due to the included documentation).