Wildcat CorpusThe Wildcat corpus of native- and foreign-accented English is a corpus of scripted and spontaneous speech recordings from 24 native speakers of American English and 52 non-native speakers of English. The core element of this corpus is a set of spontaneous speech recordings, for which a new method of eliciting dialogue-based, laboratory-quality speech recordings was developed (the Diapix task). In addition to scripted materials (e.g., ...) the corpus includes dialogues between two native speakers of English, between two non-native speakers of En... [
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LUCIDThe LUCID corpus contains spontaneous and scripted speech recordings in casual and clear speaking styles for 40 native talkers of British English. The spontaneous speech recordings were collected using the Diapix task methodology (Van Engen et al, 2010), which is a collaborative task completed by two people who have to find a set of differences between two versions of the same picture without seeing each other's version. The task results in speech that is spontaneous and natural-sounding but also constrained by topic and words. A new set of tas... [
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NUFAESDThe Northwestern University Foreign-Accented English Speech Database (NUFAESD)Overview:
- 64 simple English sentences (BKB lists 7, 8, 9, 10)
- 32 talkers from various native language backgrounds: Chinese (n=20), Korean (n=5), Bengali (n=1), Hindi (n=1), Japanese (n=1), Romanian (n=1), Slovakian (n=1), Spanish (n=1), and Thai (n=1)
A total of 2,048 recorded sentences
For each talker, the database has:
- demographic information
- a sentence production score (i.e. average s... [ More ]
| Collection Type: Speech Recordings | |
| Language(s): Foreign-accented English |
