[Corpora-List] Sum: Speech Corpus for Neural Network Training

[Scott Drellishak]

A few weeks ago, I posted a request for information about speech corpora of
a particular kind to both the Linguist List and the Corpora-List.  This is
the (somewhat belated) summary.

I described the corpora we are seeking as follows:

"We are looking for a corpus that contains samples of many speakers
producing many vowels (preferably in a less reduced register) that also
contains human-validated pitch and formant (F1, F2, and F3) tracks and, if
possible, bandwidth information.  A corpus that contains more than just
vowels is fine, since we can discard sections of the samples that do not
suit our needs."

I received five replies:

1)  John Lawler suggested MICASE (Michigan Corpus of Academic
    Spoken English), which is available here:

    http://www.lsa.umich.edu/eli/micase/micase.htm

2)  Lesley Carmichael suggested I post my request to the
    Corpora-List.

3)  Jane Edwards pointed me at the Switchboard Transcription
    Project:

    http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/real/stp/index.html

4)  Susana Sotillo wrote, "At a recent conference (CALICO) I
    saw a demonstration of the Speechcalator (Allen Blackwell
    and associates).  Why don't you write him at Carnegie-
    Mellon."

5)  Linda Bawcom offered an hour and a half of taped
    conversation that she used in her MA research.

Many thanks to everyone who replied.

Scott Drellishak
University of Washington
Seattle, WA