LINGUIST List 13.3120

Wed Nov 27 2002

Qs: Computer Framework, Phonetic Corpora

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  • Ahmed.I.S, Computer Framework
  • Matthew Johnson, Phonetic corpora

    Message 1: Computer Framework

     Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 17:13:57 -0800 (PST)
    From: Ahmed.I.S <ibhims20002yahoo.com>
    Subject: Computer Framework


    Dear colleagues,

    I am doing research on "Computer in Education". I in need of the "Computer Framework for both Multimedia and the Internet. I do hope you may refer me to any site in the web. Looking forward to hearing from you.

    Thank you and Regards

    Ahmed.I.S

    Message 2: Phonetic corpora

     Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 02:11:43 -0500
    From: Matthew Johnson <matthew.r.johnsonYALE.EDU>
    Subject: Phonetic corpora


    I'm trying to do a project that involves using artificial neural networks to process a stream of phonetic information, and I'm having a hard time finding data. Ideally I'm looking for large bodies of phonetically transcribed spoken language... and since the project is by nature cross-linguistic, I need data for as many different languages as possible.

    I'm aware that I can get a database called TIMIT from the LDC for English, but I can't find any other easily available phonetic corpora for any other language. If anyone has phonetic transcriptions of speech for any language (including English), or knows of a good place to obtain them, I would be very grateful. The larger the corpus, the better, but anything at all would help.

    In addition, if I'm not able to scrape up the data this way, I'm also looking at using a software phonetizer to artificially generate a stream of phonemes from a written corpus. If you have any information about the accuracy of these phonetizers in various languages or which ones might be worth taking a look at, I would greatly appreciate it.

    Many thanks, Matt Johnson