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Dear corpora-list colleagues,</span></font>
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We are pleased to announce that the Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of</span></font>
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English (VOICE) 1.0 Online, a corpus of transcriptions of spoken English</span></font>
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as a lingua franca (ELF) interactions, is now available as a</span></font>
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free-of-charge resource for non-commercial research purposes.</span></font>
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VOICE 1.0 Online was created by Barbara Seidlhofer (project director) and</span></font>
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Angelika Breiteneder, Theresa Klimpfinger, Stefan Majewski, Marie-Luise</span></font>
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Pitzl (project researchers) at the University of Vienna. VOICE 1.0 Online</span></font>
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with (just over) one million words breaks new ground in that it is the</span></font>
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first ELF corpus to become publicly available.</span></font>
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In order to access VOICE 1.0 Online, visit the VOICE website at</span></font>
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<u>https://www.univie.ac.at/voice/page/corpus_availability</u></span></font>
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and register for</span></font>
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your personal user account. After registration, you can log in and search</span></font>
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or browse VOICE 1.0 Online.</span></font>
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The release of VOICE 1.0 Online is accompanied by corpus</span></font>
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documentation, statistics and detailed user instructions for the online</span></font>
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search interface, all of which can be accessed at the VOICE website</span></font>
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Please let us have your feedback!</span></font>
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Barbara Seidlhofer, Angelika Breiteneder, Theresa Klimpfinger, Stefan</span></font>
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Majewski, Marie-Luise Pitzl</span></font>
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VOICE project</span></font>
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<u>voice@univie.ac.at</u></span></font>
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English Department, University of Vienna</span></font>
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Spitalgasse 2, A-1090 Vienna, Austria</span></font>
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Phone: +43-1-4277-42446</span></font>
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