[Corpora-List] Sum: Speech Corpus for Neural Network Training

From: Scott Drellishak (sfd@u.washington.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 24 2004 - 03:18:23 MET DST

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    A few weeks ago, I posted a request for information about speech corpora of
    a particular kind to both the Linguist List and the Corpora-List. This is
    the (somewhat belated) summary.

    I described the corpora we are seeking as follows:

    "We are looking for a corpus that contains samples of many speakers
    producing many vowels (preferably in a less reduced register) that also
    contains human-validated pitch and formant (F1, F2, and F3) tracks and, if
    possible, bandwidth information. A corpus that contains more than just
    vowels is fine, since we can discard sections of the samples that do not
    suit our needs."

    I received five replies:

    1) John Lawler suggested MICASE (Michigan Corpus of Academic
        Spoken English), which is available here:

        http://www.lsa.umich.edu/eli/micase/micase.htm

    2) Lesley Carmichael suggested I post my request to the
        Corpora-List.

    3) Jane Edwards pointed me at the Switchboard Transcription
        Project:

        http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/real/stp/index.html

    4) Susana Sotillo wrote, "At a recent conference (CALICO) I
        saw a demonstration of the Speechcalator (Allen Blackwell
        and associates). Why don't you write him at Carnegie-
        Mellon."

    5) Linda Bawcom offered an hour and a half of taped
        conversation that she used in her MA research.

    Many thanks to everyone who replied.

    Scott Drellishak
    University of Washington
    Seattle, WA

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