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The audio data for a sizeable proportion of the spoken component of the BNC has recently been made available - see <a href="http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/AudioBNC">http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/AudioBNC</a>. Access to many of these recordings (amounting to about 5.5
million words) is now possible straight from a query result in BNCweb on the Lancaster corpus server (<a href="http://bncweb.lancs.ac.uk">http://bncweb.lancs.ac.uk</a>).
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<div>At the moment, the implementation of this new feature is still experimental and has not been thoroughly tested. If you notice anything that doesn't work, please send a bug report to <a href="mailto:bncweb@mac.com">bncweb@mac.com</a>. Unfortunately, some
of the alignment information provided in the original Praat TextGrid files seems to be off by quite a margin, so users may not hear what they expect to hear in some of the recordings. This situation might improve over the next months as I have implemented
a crowd-sourcing facility for users to give feedback about whether the alignment was correct or not. Please make use of it as much as possible - thank you!</div>
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<div>Unfortunately, not all browsers are fully compatible with the audio features of BNCweb. It seems that particularly Chrome is experiencing difficulties. I recommend the use of Safari or Firefox instead.<br>
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<div>New users of BNCweb can set up their own login and password by registering at <a href="http://bncweb.lancs.ac.uk/bncwebSignup/">http://bncweb.lancs.ac.uk/bncwebSignup/</a>. By default, access to certain features (e.g. context display of query results,
total number of query hits) is limited for licensing reasons. If you own a license for the XML version of the BNC, please contact
<a href="mailto:bncweb@mac.com">bncweb@mac.com</a> with some proof of purchase and ask for your username to be changed to "full access". For institutional licenses, full access will be possible for anybody signing up with a relevant email address.</div>
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<div>At the moment, the layout of the audio navigation tools is not yet ideal - feedback and suggestions for changes are welcome!</div>
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<div>Best regards,</div>
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<div>Prof. Dr. Sebastian Hoffmann<br>
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FB II Anglistik<br>
Universität Trier<br>
D-54286 Trier<br>
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Zimmer B 344<br>
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Tel: +49 +651 201-2287 (-2270 Sekretariat)<br>
Fax: +49 +651 201-3946</div>
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