Arabic-L:LING:LDC Spoken Language Sampler available for free download

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Date: 20 Nov 2008
From:ldc at ldc.upenn.edu
Subject:LDC Spoken Language Sampler available for free download


The LDC Spoken Language Sampler provides a variety of speech,  
transcript and lexicon samples and is designed to illustrate the  
variety and breadth of the resources available from LDC’s Catalog.   
Created for distribution at NWAV 37 and geared towards sociolinguists,  
the sampler is a good introduction to data available from the LDC. The  
sampler includes excerpts from telephone conversations in Arabic  
(Gulf, Iraqi, and Levantine dialects) Farsi, Japanese, Korean,  
Spanish, and Tamil; dictionary resources for Mawukakan and Tamil;  
transcribed meeting speech; utterances in Russian from native and non- 
native speakers; and speech samples which represent regional accents  
and dialects of the United States.  Audio samples range from 30  
seconds to 90 seconds and are accompanied by transcripts.

The sampler can be downloaded for free from the catalog page for the  
LDC Spoken Language Sampler.  Please scroll down to 'How to Obtain'  
for a download link.

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