15.1484, Qs: English Speech Corpora

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-15-1484. Tue May 11 2004. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 15.1484, Qs: English Speech Corpora

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Date:  Mon, 10 May 2004 12:09:19 -0700
From:  "Ingo Plag" <plag at anglistik.uni-siegen.de>
Subject:  speech corpora

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Date:  Mon, 10 May 2004 12:09:19 -0700
From:  "Ingo Plag" <plag at anglistik.uni-siegen.de>
Subject:  speech corpora

Dear Linguist Listers,

I have two queries concerning English speech corpora.

1. I am looking for a speech corpus (language: English) that is
part-of- speech tagged and has soundfiles, transcriptions and
part-of-speech tags aligned. Furthermore, it needs to be of
considerable size (> 100,000 word tokens, if possible). Can anyone
point me towards pertinent corpora?

So far I only found one corpus that meets all the criteria mentioned
above, the Boston University Radio News Corpus.

2. In spite of hour-long efforts and the help of experienced
colleagues I have not managed to open the example files of the BU
Radio News Corpus properly, no matter whether I used PRAAT,
Wavesurfer, or Transcriber. All three programs can open the sound file
(.sph) without problems but neither of the programs can access the
files with the transcription or the part-of- speech tags and align
this information with the sound wave. Can anyone help? Which
program(s) can do the job?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks in advance!

Best regards,
Ingo Plag


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