6.1645, Sum: Machine Readable Dictionaries

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-6-1645. Wed Nov 22 1995. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  84
 
Subject: 6.1645, Sum: Machine Readable Dictionaries
 
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Date:  Tue, 21 Nov 1995 18:50:34 EST
From:  PATERJV at QUCDN.QueensU.CA (Joe Pater)
Subject:       Machine Readable Dictionaries: Summary
 
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Date:  Tue, 21 Nov 1995 18:50:34 EST
From:  PATERJV at QUCDN.QueensU.CA (Joe Pater)
Subject:       Machine Readable Dictionaries: Summary
 
 
Thanks to all who answered my query about machine readable
pronunciation dictionaries:
David Powers, Patrick Juola, Pete Whitelock, John Coleman,
Francois Yvon, Bruce Nevin, Richard Shillcock, Tony Vitale,
Jean-Louis Duchet, and Peter Daniels.
 
The answers contained many useful suggestions on paths I might
take to obtain copyright-free English pronunciation dictionaries:
most of these I have yet to follow up on, but I will post any further
results that might be of use.
 
By far the most oft-cited source was the Oxford Text Archive,
which contains copies of several machine-readable dictionaries.
The WWW URL is:  http://info.ox.ac.uk/~archive/ota.html
The Oxford Text Archive Shortlist, which gives up to date brief
details of all texts held in the Archive can be obtained through e-mail
to ARCHIVE at VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK, or by anonymous FTP
from the directory ota on ota.ox.ac.uk
 
Other Sources:
 
Patrick Juola writes:
"Grady Ward has a MOBY Pronunciator list available. About
80,000 words of English with an approximate IPA pronunciation
listed.
Research licence is about US $200, I think the commercial is double
that.  Get it from grady at netcom.com"
 
Francois Yvon mentions:
"[o]ne [that] has been used in the NetTalk experiments and is
available. You can get more info on that corpus (including ftp
address) by mailing to:
neural-bench at cs.cmu.edu"
 
As well as one available via ftp from:
 
host:      ftp.cs.cmu.edu [128.2.206.173]
directory: project/fgdata/dict
  Retrieve the following files:
 
     README
     cmudict.0.2.Z (compressed)
     cmulex.0.1.Z (compressed)
     phoneset.0.1
 
Any other suggestions are still welcome.
 
Joe Pater,
paterjv at qucdn.queensu.ca
 
P.S. For information on CHILDES, go to http://poppy.psy.cmu.edu
or consult MacWhinney, B. (1995) The Childes Project (2nd ed.), LEA.
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