Subject: Re: spoken sentences From: Michael Mihocic <michael.mihocic@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 10:48:33 +0200 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Good morning!<br> <br> My collegue(s) forwarded me the following information. I hope it is not too late.<br> <br> Br, Michael<br> <br> <br> <br> <div class="moz-text-plain" wrap="true" graphical-quote="true" style="font-family: -moz-fixed; font-size: 13px;" lang="x-western"> <pre wrap="">LINGUIST List: Vol-21-3484. Tue Aug 31 2010. ISSN: 1068 - 4875. 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If you you are not sure whether you want to register, here is an example of one VLC entry (Turkish/Zonguldak): <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://linguistics.online.uni-marburg.de/secure/generalmodules/languages/templates/start.php?lang_ID=7840">http://linguistics.online.uni-marburg.de/secure/generalmodules/languages/templates/start.php?lang_ID=7840</a> Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation Phonetics Typology Writing Systems ----------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-21-3484 </pre> </div> <br> <br> <br> -------- Original-Nachricht -------- <table class="moz-email-headers-table" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">Betreff: </th> <td>[AUDITORY] spoken sentences</td> </tr> <tr> <th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">Datum: </th> <td>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:21:31 -0400</td> </tr> <tr> <th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">Von: </th> <td>Josh McDermott <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jhm@xxxxxxxx"><jhm@xxxxxxxx></a></td> </tr> <tr> <th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">Antwort an: </th> <td>Josh McDermott <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jhm@xxxxxxxx"><jhm@xxxxxxxx></a></td> </tr> <tr> <th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">An: </th> <td><a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:AUDITORY@xxxxxxxx">AUDITORY@xxxxxxxx</a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <br> <br> <pre>Dear list, I am looking for some sets of recorded spoken sentences in a language other than English. Ideally I'd like to have a hundred or so sentences from each of several speakers. Transcriptions are not critical. If anyone has anything like this that they'd be willing to share, I'd be grateful to hear from you. Thanks, Josh </pre> </body> </html>