Looking for Data for Research Study

[Susan M. Powers]

Thank you so much Brian. I checked into the corpus and it looks perfect
for their project. 

Best,
Susan

On Tuesday, July 29, 2014 9:14:16 AM UTC-4, Susan M. Powers 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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