Looking for Data for Research Study

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Susan,

    CHILDES focuses more on recordings from younger children.  I think that Maxine
Eskenazi's KIDSPEECH database which is available through the LDC includes older
children and might be appropriate for this.  There is also a huge national database of
standard spoken forms collected from all 48 states back in the 1970s on reel-to-reel
archived at the University of West Virginia.

-- Brian

On Jul 29, 2014, at 6:14 AM, Susan M. Powers <suzipow at alumni.neu.edu> wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> I am working as a consultant for an Israeli start-up called Linguistech
> Solutions (http://www.lnts.com/). They are, in their own words 
> "embarking on a research project on children's speech recognition." 
> 
> Here is their description: 
> "The research is being conducted by the Technion -- Israel Institute 
> of Technology and Linguistech Solutions Ltd. As part of the research
> process, it is necessary to create a large database of children's 
> voice recordings."
> 
> I informed them that a large database of children's voice recordings
> (aka The CHILDES Database) already exists. They are looking for data 
> from native US English speaking children ages 7 - 12. They want just 
> child speech so I thought some of the data in the /Narrative or /Frogs 
> corpora might fit the bill, but I cannot locate the audio files that are 
> needed to train their recognition engine. Does anyone know if the 
> recordings (.wav or .mp3) from an appropriate corpus are still available 
> (perhaps archived somewhere)?
> 
> I'd like to help them to obtain data that was collected for studies of 
> language acquisition. They were unaware of the existence of CHILDES; 
> it would be a shame for them to have to "re-invent the wheel" if some
> recordings are indeed available.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help and/or advice,
> 
> Susan 
> 
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