The BEA speech database is a phonetically oriented multifunctional spontaneous- and read speech database created by the Department of Phonetics of the Institute of Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences from 2008. It was created continuously for ten years. The aim of this development was to record the speech of today’s speakers in Budapest, as well as to provide material for various research and practical applications. The database contains hundreds of hours of audio recordings, spontaneous speech and readings. It is a work of great importance from a linguistic, sociological, cultural, national and international perspective. The speech data of 305 informants between the ages of 20 and 90. The total duration is 265 hours. It can be used in both scientific and practical fields, such as medical diagnostics, forensic phonetics, and artificial speech recognition. The recording conditions of the database were all the time constant, did not change during the entire development. The database can be used freely for research purposes. A book about the database was published by Mária Gósy in 2012 at Akadémia Kiadó.
Further details in Hungarian: http://www.nytud.hu/adatb/bea/index.html