Re: Multi-language speech samples

[flatmax <flatmax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 18 May 2000, [X-UNKNOWN] Tóth László wrote:

> On Wed, 17 May 2000, [iso-8859-1] Lars Bramsløw wrote:
> 
> > Could anyone give me references on WWW, where I can find short samples (e.g.
> > few minutes) of running speech in different languages from different
> > language families (European, Asian, Arabic, African etc..).
> > 
> Might be a crazy idea, but you could collect your data from web-radios.
> There are drivers that could record the streaming audio directly into a 
> wav file.

Often web-radio streams use lossy compression of varying quality. Watch
out for that !
Matt