VOXMEX Speech Database: design of a phonetically balanced corpus

We present a method for designing a phonetically balanced speech corpus. In this method, we used a phonotactic approach to design the phonetic content of VOXMEX: a phonetically balanced corpus for Mexican Spanish. The transcriptions of VOXMEX contain a complete coverage of phonemes and allophones of Mexican Spanish in every possible context. This corpus is designed for doing phonetic research and acoustic modeling in the speech recognition area. We are recording the readings of the designed text corpus to obtain the speech data of VOXMEX. Our main goal in this project is to construct a phonologically representative speech corpus for Mexican Spanish. 1