Re: Corpora: Spoken English Corpora

Bill Fisher (william.fisher@nist.gov)
Mon, 30 Nov 1998 10:30:05 -0500

On Nov 30, 8:58am, s.zeidel@utoronto.ca wrote:
> Subject: Corpora: Spoken English Corpora
> Well, the subject line says it all.. Our lab is looking for a spoken
> corpora of North American English which we can search for single word and
> multiple word phrases. I have found a lot of stuff regarding British
> English, but the North American stuff seems sparse. What is everyone else
> using? Are these free databases or do they have costs?
>
> Thank you
>

Some of the corpora available from the Linguistic Data
Consortium will probably meet your needs; see

http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/

- Bill F.