Re: [AUDITORY] Foreign connected speech databases wanted

[Brian Gygi <bgygi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Bruno (and list)

Maybe all you need is this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/09/arts/that-syllable-everyone-recognizes.html

Cheers,

 

Brian Gygi, Ph.D.

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruno L. Giordano [mailto:brungio@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Saturday, November 9, 2013 08:34 AM
> To: AUDITORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Foreign connected speech databases wanted
>
> Dear list,
>
> I am looking for databases of foreign connected speech. Target languages 
> would include anything that is unlikely to be understood by most of the
> experiment participants one normally manages to get in UK universities.
> Examples include Finnish, Arab and Swedish.
>
> Importantly, for each language I am looking for both male and female
> speakers, and for some decent quality of the audio recordings. I am not
> looking for phonetic transcriptions or for insanely long excerpts
> (indeed our stimuli need to be 1.5 s long).
>
> Thank you for any pointer.
>
> Best,
>
> 	Bruno
>
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