LINGUIST List 17.2363
Mon Aug 21 2006
FYI: Speaking Style and Identity: New Corpus
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Speaking Style and Identity: New Corpus
Message 1: Speaking Style and Identity: New Corpus
Date: 21-Aug-2006
From: Fred Cummins <fred.cumminsucd.ie>
Subject: Speaking Style and Identity: New Corpus
We are releasing a novel speech corpus which may be of interest into thoselooking at diverse speaking styles, and those seeking to characterizespeaker identity. The CHAINS corpus (CHaracterizing INdividual Speakers)features approximately 36 speakers recorded under a variety of speakingconditions, allowing comparison of the same speaker across differentwell-defined speech styles. Speakers read a variety of texts alone, insynchrony with a dialect-matched co-speaker, in imitation of adialect-matched co-speaker, in a whisper, and at a fast rate. There is alsoan unscripted spontaneous retelling of a read fable. The bulk of thespeakers were speakers of Eastern Hiberno-English.
The corpus is being made freely available for research purposes. Fulldetails are available at the corpus website: http://chains.ucd.ie. Thisresearch is funded by Science Foundation Ireland.
Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics
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