13.3120, Qs: Computer Framework, Phonetic Corpora

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-13-3120. Wed Nov 27 2002. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 13.3120, Qs: Computer Framework, Phonetic Corpora

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1)
Date:  Tue, 26 Nov 2002 17:13:57 -0800 (PST)
From:  "Ahmed.I.S" <ibhims20002 at yahoo.com>
Subject:  Computer Framework

2)
Date:          Wed, 27 Nov 2002 02:11:43 -0500
From:          Matthew Johnson <matthew.r.johnson at YALE.EDU>
Subject:       Phonetic corpora

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Tue, 26 Nov 2002 17:13:57 -0800 (PST)
From:  "Ahmed.I.S" <ibhims20002 at yahoo.com>
Subject:  Computer Framework


Dear colleagues,

I am doing research on "Computer in Education". I in need of the
"Computer Framework for both Multimedia and the Internet. I do hope
you may refer me to any site in the web. Looking forward to hearing
from you.

Thank you and Regards

Ahmed.I.S


-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:          Wed, 27 Nov 2002 02:11:43 -0500
From:          Matthew Johnson <matthew.r.johnson at YALE.EDU>
Subject:       Phonetic corpora

I'm trying to do a project that involves using artificial neural
networks to process a stream of phonetic information, and I'm having a
hard time finding data. Ideally I'm looking for large bodies of
phonetically transcribed spoken language... and since the project is
by nature cross-linguistic, I need data for as many different
languages as possible.

I'm aware that I can get a database called TIMIT from the LDC for
English, but I can't find any other easily available phonetic corpora
for any other language. If anyone has phonetic transcriptions of
speech for any language (including English), or knows of a good place
to obtain them, I would be very grateful. The larger the corpus, the
better, but anything at all would help.

In addition, if I'm not able to scrape up the data this way, I'm also
looking at using a software phonetizer to artificially generate a
stream of phonemes from a written corpus. If you have any information
about the accuracy of these phonetizers in various languages or which
ones might be worth taking a look at, I would greatly appreciate it.

Many thanks,
Matt Johnson

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