The NSC data facilitates the research necessary to clarify the relationship between "Distal Cues" and "Proximal Percepts", which should lead to machines reaching the human performance in the attribution of speaker social characteristics.
the newly acquired NSC corpus presents: • Clean speech recordings made in the acousticallyisolated Nautilus room (which gives name to this database) with the high-quality AKG C 414B-XLS microphone.