Re: American English sentence corpora (Pierre Divenyi )

Subject: Re: American English sentence corpora From: Pierre Divenyi <pdivenyi@xxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 16:22:27 -0500 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY> > This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --B_3406033350_31132943 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Try the TIMIT corpus. Fisher, William M.; Doddington, George R. and Goudie-Marshall, Kathleen M. (1986). "The DARPA Speech Recognition Research Database: Specifications and Status". Proceedings of DARPA Workshop on Speech Recognition. pp. 93=AD99. See the URL=20 http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=3DLDC93S1 -Pierre On 12/6/11 6:46 PM, "Sam Mathias" <smathias@xxxxxxxx> wrote: Dear list, I'm searching for recordings of the BKB sentences (or of a similar corpus) made with American English talkers. Ideally I'd like at least four male and four female talkers. Does anyone know whether such recordings exist? Any assistance would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance, Sam Mathias --=20 Dr. Samuel R. Mathias Neural Mechanisms of Human Communication Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Stephanstra=DFe 1 04103 Leipzig, Germany Tel: +49 341 9940 2479 --B_3406033350_31132943 Content-type: text/html; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline <html><head> <meta name=3D"Title" content=3D""> <meta name=3D"Keywords" content=3D""> <meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html; charset=3Dutf-8"> <meta name=3D"ProgId" content=3D"Word.Document"> <meta name=3D"Generator" content=3D"Microsoft Word 14"> <meta name=3D"Originator" content=3D"Microsoft Word 14">     <style>  </style>  </head><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -web= kit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><div style=3D"fon= t-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; ">Try the TIMIT corpus.</di= v><div><font class=3D"Apple-style-span" face=3D"Cambria"><span class=3D"App= le-style-span" style=3D"font-size: 16px;"><div><span class=3D"citation book= " style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; "><br></span></div><div><span class=3D"ci= tation book" style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; ">Fisher, William M.; Doddingt= on, George R. and Goudie-Marshall, Kathleen M. (1986). "The DARPA Speech Re= cognition Research Database: Specifications and Status". <i>Proceeding= s of DARPA Workshop on Speech Recognition</i>. pp. 93–99.</span>= <span class=3D"Z3988" title=3D"ctx_ver=3DZ39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=3Dinfo= %3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=3Dbookitem&rft.btitle=3DT= he+DARPA+Speech+Recognition+Research+Database%3A+Specifications+and+Status&= amp;rft.atitle=3DProceedings+of+DARPA+Workshop+on+Speech+Recognition&rf= t.aulast=3DFisher&rft.aufirst=3DWilliam+M.&rft.au=3DFisher%2C%26%23= 32%3BWilliam+M.&rft.date=3D1986&rft.pages=3Dpp.%26nbsp%3B93%E2%80%9= 399&rfr_id=3Dinfo:sid/en.wikipedia.org:TIMIT"></span></div><div><span c= lass=3D"citation book" style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; "><br></span></div><= div><span class=3D"citation book" style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; ">See the= URL </span></div></span></font><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style= =3D"font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; "><a href=3D"http://www.ldc.upen= n.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=3DLDC93S1">http://www.ldc.upenn.ed= u/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=3DLDC93S1</a></span></div><div><font c= lass=3D"Apple-style-span" face=3D"Cambria"><span class=3D"Apple-style-span"= style=3D"font-size: 16px;">-Pierre<br><div><span class=3D"citation book" s= tyle=3D"word-wrap: break-word; "><br></span></div><h2 style=3D"color: rgb(0= , 0, 0); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background= -origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255,= 255); font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bott= om: 0.6em; margin-left: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; paddin= g-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bott= om-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; font= -size: 19px; font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: nor= mal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: -we= bkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; wid= ows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-str= oke-width: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: in= itial initial; "></h2></span></font></div><div style=3D"font-family: Calibr= i, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><br></div><span id=3D"OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTIO= N" style=3D"font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><div>= On 12/6/11 6:46 PM, "Sam Mathias" <<a href=3D"mailto:smathias@xxxxxxxx= ">smathias@xxxxxxxx</a>> wrote:</div></div><div><br></div>Dear list,<b= r><br>I'm searching for recordings of the BKB sentences (or of a similar co= rpus) made with American English talkers. Ideally I'd like at least four ma= le and four female talkers. Does anyone know whether such recordings exist?= Any assistance would be very much appreciated.<br><br>Thanks in advance,<b= r>Sam Mathias<br clear=3D"all"><br>-- <br>Dr. Samuel R. Mathias<br>Neural M= echanisms of Human Communication<br>Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitiv= e and Brain Sciences<br>Stephanstra=DFe 1<br>04103 Leipzig, Germany<br> Tel: +49 341 9940 2479<br></span></body></html> --B_3406033350_31132943--

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