Looking for Data for Research Study

[Susan M. Powers]

Dear Colleagues,

I am working as a consultant for an Israeli start-up called Linguistech
Solutions (http://www.lnts.com/). They are, in their own words 
"embarking on a research project on children's speech recognition." 

Here is their description: 
"The research is being conducted by the Technion -- Israel Institute 
of Technology and Linguistech Solutions Ltd. As part of the research
process, it is necessary to create a large database of children's 
voice recordings."

I informed them that a large database of children's voice recordings
(aka The CHILDES Database) already exists. They are looking for data 
from native US English speaking children ages 7 - 12. They want just 
child speech so I thought some of the data in the /Narrative or /Frogs 
corpora might fit the bill, but I cannot locate the audio files that are 
needed to train their recognition engine. Does anyone know if the 
recordings (.wav or .mp3) from an appropriate corpus are still available 
(perhaps archived somewhere)?

I'd like to help them to obtain data that was collected for studies of 
language acquisition. They were unaware of the existence of CHILDES; 
it would be a shame for them to have to "re-invent the wheel" if some
recordings are indeed available.

Thanks in advance for your help and/or advice,

Susan 

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