<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Dear Susan,<div><br><div> CHILDES focuses more on recordings from younger children. I think that Maxine</div><div>Eskenazi’s KIDSPEECH database which is available through the LDC includes older</div><div>children and might be appropriate for this. There is also a huge national database of</div><div>standard spoken forms collected from all 48 states back in the 1970s on reel-to-reel</div><div>archived at the University of West Virginia.</div><div><br></div><div>— Brian</div><div><br><div><div>On Jul 29, 2014, at 6:14 AM, Susan M. Powers <<a href="mailto:suzipow@alumni.neu.edu">suzipow@alumni.neu.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Dear Colleagues,<br><br>I am working as a consultant for an Israeli start-up called Linguistech<br>Solutions (<a href="http://www.lnts.com/">http://www.lnts.com/</a>). They are, in their own words <br>"embarking on a research project on children's speech recognition." <br><br>Here is their description: <br>"The research is being conducted by the Technion -- Israel Institute <br>of Technology and Linguistech Solutions Ltd. As part of the research<br>process, it is necessary to create a large database of children's <br>voice recordings."<br><br>I informed them that a large database of children's voice recordings<br>(aka The CHILDES Database) already exists. They are looking for data <br>from native US English speaking children ages 7 - 12. They want just <br>child speech so I thought some of the data in the /Narrative or /Frogs <br>corpora might fit the bill, but I cannot locate the audio files that are <br>needed to train their recognition engine. Does anyone know if the <br>recordings (.wav or .mp3) from an appropriate corpus are still available <br>(perhaps archived somewhere)?<br><br>I'd like to help them to obtain data that was collected for studies of <br>language acquisition. They were unaware of the existence of CHILDES; <br>it would be a shame for them to have to "re-invent the wheel" if some<br>recordings are indeed available.<br><br>Thanks in advance for your help and/or advice,<br><br>Susan <br></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>
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