<div dir="ltr">Thank you so much Brian. I checked into the corpus and it looks perfect<br>for their project. <br><br>Best,<br>Susan<br><br>On Tuesday, July 29, 2014 9:14:16 AM UTC-4, Susan M. Powers wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0;margin-left: 0.8ex;border-left: 1px #ccc solid;padding-left: 1ex;"><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/" target="_blank">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></blockquote></div>
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