--- title: "Creation of Spoken Hebrew Databases — Rannon 2000" description: "A company (NSC) describes two telephone speech databases of Modern Hebrew for speech recognition in teleservices, designed after the SpeechDat…" authors: ["Tami Rannon", "Ofra Golani", "Anat Goren", "Sherrie Shammass", "Ami Moyal"] year: 2000 venue: "Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'00)" source: "https://aclanthology.org/L00-1037/" doi: "10.63317/58dvvd3u2v7m" licence: "CC BY-NC 4.0 (ELRA, LREC proceedings)" licence_url: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" summary_licence: "Elamur Cosmic License" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lingbulk-2000-rannon-creation-spoken-hebrew-databases/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lingbulk-2000-rannon-creation-spoken-hebrew-databases/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/) / [2000](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/2000/) / Creation of Spoken Hebrew Databases # Creation of Spoken Hebrew Databases **Authors:** Tami Rannon; Ofra Golani; Anat Goren; Sherrie Shammass; Ami Moyal · **Year:** 2000 · **Venue:** Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'00) **Link:** [aclanthology.org/L00-1037](https://aclanthology.org/L00-1037/) · library `lingbulk-2000-rannon-creation-spoken-hebrew-databases` · **Licence:** [CC BY-NC 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) (ELRA, LREC proceedings) — summary only [**0** citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=cites:W2402089611) OpenAlex · 2026-10-14 · [Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'00)](https://aclanthology.org/volumes/L00-1/) · [licence](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) - [Publisher's page](https://aclanthology.org/L00-1037/) - [PDF](https://aclanthology.org/L00-1037.pdf) - [DOI 10.63317/58dvvd3u2v7m](https://doi.org/10.63317/58dvvd3u2v7m) - [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/W2402089611) **Authors (5)** 1. [Tami Rannon](https://openalex.org/A5017531824) [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/1821297) · h 0 · 0 citations · 1 works 2. [Ofra Golani](https://openalex.org/A5002548869) [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9793-236X) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/35031411) · h 28 · 6012 citations · 204 works 3. [Anat Goren](https://openalex.org/A5056024228) [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/39578762) · h 3 · 167 citations · 5 works 4. [Sherrie Shammass](https://openalex.org/A5050678026) [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/2140106) · h 2 · 135 citations · 9 works 5. [Ami Moyal](https://openalex.org/A5053283842) [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/2058260) · h 5 · 78 citations · 30 works Citations and author metrics: OpenAlex, 2026-10-14; authors with the same name are not always told apart. ## What it is about A company (NSC) describes two telephone speech databases of Modern Hebrew for speech recognition in teleservices, designed after the SpeechDat fixed-network model: DB I with 250 speakers × 32 utterances and DB II with 850 speakers × 75 utterances, read and spontaneous. Speakers were sampled by age, gender, education and, instead of region, by country of origin (Ashkenazi and Sephardi pronunciations; the Sephardi one keeps guttural allophones). Read prompts were printed with full niqqud to remove ambiguity (the paper's example: ספר as sefer "book", sapar "hairdresser", safar "counted"). The material covers digits in both genders, digit strings, numbers, money, times and dates (from BNF grammars of possible phrases), spelled letters, about 70 application keywords given in masculine and feminine forms (spoken Hebrew uses the future for the imperative), 600 phonetically rich sentences and about 1,000 phonetically rich words with common foreign words. Everything was transcribed orthographically and in SAMPA. The automatic text extraction of this PDF failed (font-encoded Hebrew), so this card was written from the page images of pages 1–3. ## Ideas - I1. Number, time and date phrases for Modern Hebrew as small BNF grammars (gendered digits, units, "quarter past", relative dates), as the paper did for its prompts. A Rust grammar of this kind is a ready tokenizer/normaliser stage for numerals in Modern Hebrew text, and a generator of test sentences. - I2. The future-for-imperative usage of spoken Hebrew (the paper's reason for listing keywords in the future) is a register note and a rule for the Modern Hebrew verb chapter: an imperative frame may be expressed by a 2nd-person future. - I3. The sefer/sapar/safar triple is a minimal test of unpointed ambiguity; collect such homograph sets as the first test for any Modern Hebrew reader. ## For Mova I1 goes into [languages/he/02-script-and-spelling.md](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/he/02-script-and-spelling/) (numbers and dates) and the plan in [languages/he/12-mova.md](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/he/12-mova/); I2 into [languages/he/05-verbs.md](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/he/05-verbs/) and `09-pragmatics-politeness.md`; I3 into [languages/he/02-script-and-spelling.md](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/he/02-script-and-spelling/). The databases themselves are commercial and not available to Mova. ## Cite The paper itself, not this card. BibTeX from the library's record of the work. [DOI 10.63317/58dvvd3u2v7m](https://doi.org/10.63317/58dvvd3u2v7m) ```bibtex @inproceedings{rannon2000creation, title = {{Creation of Spoken Hebrew Databases}}, author = {Rannon, Tami and Golani, Ofra and Goren, Anat and Shammass, Sherrie and Moyal, Ami}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'00)}, year = {2000}, doi = {10.63317/58dvvd3u2v7m}, url = {https://doi.org/10.63317/58dvvd3u2v7m} } ``` - [← previous Creating a Universal Networking Language Module within an Advanced NLP System](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/boguslavsky-2000-creating-universal-networking-language-module/) - [next → Developing a grammar checker for Swedish](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/arppe-2000-developing-grammar-checker-swedish/) - [↑ back to papers of 2000](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/2000/)