POLEMAD – a database for the multimodal analysis of Polish pronunciation

The structure and functionality of the POLEMAD database constructed on the basis of a study using Electromagnetic Articulograph AG 500, an acoustic camera, and 3 video cameras are described in the paper. The article describes also data types stored in the database including speaker data, EMA data, video and sound recordings, phonetic information, and dynamic Bayesian network (DBN) models. The database allows for selective extraction of various types of samples for further analysis, which is performed by SQL queries generated in MATLAB® using Database Toolbox™. The possibilities of potential future application of the database in statistical analysis and automation of experiments on speech inversion using DBN are described in the paper as well.