33.643, FYI: February 2022 Newsletter - LDC

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LINGUIST List: Vol-33-643. Fri Feb 18 2022. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 33.643, FYI: February 2022 Newsletter - LDC

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Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2022 04:42:13
From: Membership Coordinator [ldc at ldc.upenn.edu]
Subject: February 2022 Newsletter - LDC

 
In this newsletter: 
LDC Membership Discounts Expire March 1  

New Publications:
The Child Subglottal Resonances Database
Spoken Digits in Hindi and Indian English
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LDC Membership Discounts Expire March 1 
There is still time to save on 2022 membership fees. Renew your LDC
membership, rejoin the Consortium, or become a new member by March 1 to
receive a discount of up to 10%. For more information on membership benefits
and options, visit Join LDC. ________________________________________
New publications:
(1) The Child Subglottal Resonances Database was developed by Washington
University and University of California Los Angeles and consists of 15.5 hours
of simultaneous microphone and subglottal accelerometer recordings from 19
male and 9 female child speakers of American English aged 7-17.

The subglottal system is composed of the airways of the tracheobronchial tree
and the surrounding tissues. It powers airflow through the larynx and vocal
tract, allowing for the generation of most of the sound sources used in
languages around the world. The subglottal resonances (SGRs) are the natural
frequencies of the subglottal system. During speech, the subglottal system is
acoustically coupled to the vocal tract via the larynx. SGRs can be measured
from recordings of the vibration of the skin of the neck during phonation by
an accelerometer, much like speech formants are measured through microphone
recordings.

The corpus consists of 34 monosyllables in a phonetically neutral carrier
phrase (“I said a ____ again”), with a median of 6 repetitions of each word by
each speaker, resulting in 5,247 individual microphone (and accelerometer)
waveforms. Speaker metadata is included. 

The Child Subglottal Resonances Database is distributed via web download.  

2022 Subscription Members will automatically receive copies of this corpus.
2022 Standard Members may request a copy as part of their 16 free membership
corpora. Non-members may license this data for a fee.
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(2)  Spoken Digits in Hindi and Indian English was developed by the Birla
Institute of Technology and Science Pilani and contains two hours of speech
from Hindi and English speakers with regional accents from across India saying
the digits 1-10. The data was collected in person on a mobile handset recorder
app, by one-to-one online communications over social apps, and from social
media sites. Each audio file represents a single spoken digit in either Hindi
or Indian English. Background noise was mostly retained. Some data was
recorded in a noise-free environment or cleaned after recording to avoid
abrupt noises such as car horns. Speaker metadata is included.

Spoken Digits in Hindi and Indian English is distributed via web download. 

2022 Subscription Members will automatically receive copies of this corpus
provided they have submitted a completed copy of the special license
agreement. 2022 Standard Members may request a copy as part of their 16 free
membership corpora. Non-members may license this data for a fee.

Membership Coordinator
Linguistic Data Consortium
University of Pennsylvania
T: +1-215-573-1275
E: ldc at ldc.upenn.edu
M: 3600 Market St. Suite 810
Philadelphia, PA 19104 


 



Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics





 



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