Re: [Corpora-List] are there corpora of fast speech?

From: Eric Atwell (eric@comp.leeds.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Jan 14 2003 - 21:34:14 MET

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    Dinoj,
    You dont say what counts as "fast" speech - anything spontaneous?
    The ICAME CD-ROM includes spoken corpora (transcription texts) :
    London Lund Corpus
    Lancaster/IBM Spoken English Corpus (SEC)
    Corpus of London Teenage Language (COLT)
    Wellington Spoken Corpus (New Zealand)
    The International Corpus of English - East African component

    see http://www.hd.uib.no/icame/newcd.htm for samples and manuals.
    These are transcriptions only, but SEC sound files are available
    separately (as MARSEC), and I think some sound files from other corpora
    may be availablew from the corpus collectors.

    At Leeds we collected Italian and German Spoken Learners' English for
    the ISLE corpus - but these are sound files recorded by getting subjects
    to read out loud on-screen prompts, NOT spontaneous dialogue, so I guess
    not what you want (not particularly fast either, subjects generally read
    rather slowly trying to "get it right"...)

    hope this helps

    Eric Atwell

    On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Dinoj Surendran wrote:

    > Dear list members,
    >
    > Does anyone know if there is a (at least) phonetically transcribed corpus
    > of fast English speech? A corpus of spontaneous speech known to have
    > several fast speakers could also work. And while I would prefer to have
    > both the sound files and the transcription files, the latter only will
    > still be of use.
    >
    > Thanks,
    >
    > Dinoj Surendran
    > Graduate Student
    > Computer Science Dept
    > University of Chicago
    >
    >
    >

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