Digital Archive of Southern Speech is available

[Jesse Sheidlower]

[Forwarded on behalf of the LDC]
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Dear List Members,

The Linguistic Data Consortium at the University of Pennsylvania is
pleased to announce that the following release is now available:

   Digital Archive of Southern Speech (DASS)
   <http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2012S03>
   was developed by the University of Georgia. It is a subset of the
   Linguistic Atlas of the Gulf States
   <http://www.lap.uga.edu/Site/LAGS.html> (LAGS), which is in turn
   part of the Linguist Atlas Project <http://www.lap.uga.edu/> (LAP).
   DASS contains approximately 370 hours of English speech data from 30
   female speakers and 34 male speakers in .wav format and in .mp3
   format, along with associated metadata about the speakers and the
   recordings and maps in .jpeg format relating to the recording
   locations.

   LAP consists of a set of survey research projects about the words
   and pronunciation of everyday American English, the largest project
   of its kind in the United States. Interviews with thousands of
   native speakers across the country have been carried out since 1929.
   LAGS surveyed the everyday speech of Georgia, Tennessee, Florida,
   Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas in a series of
   914 audio-taped interviews conducted from 1968-1983. Interviews
   average approximately six hours in length; the systematic LAGS tape
   archive amounts to 5500 hours of sound recordings. DASS is a
   collection of 64 interviews from LAGS selected to cover a range of
   speech across the region and to represent multiple education levels
   and ethnic backgrounds.

   Also included in this release is a version of the LICHEN software
   developed at the University of Oulu, Finland. LICHEN allows users to
   browse and search through the audio data in a more advanced fashion
   using a graphical interface.

   Digital Archive of Southern Speech (DASS) is distributed on one hard
   disc drive.

Non-member organizations may license this data for US$250.  Please email
LDC for licensing information.

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Ilya Ahtaridis
Membership Coordinator
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