Subject: Re: [AUDITORY] Foreign connected speech databases wanted From: Giampiero Salvi <giampi@xxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 10:47:41 +0100 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>On Nov 10, 2013 6:05 AM, "Bruno L. Giordano" <brungio@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 exp= eriment participants one normally manages to get in UK universities. Exampl= es include Finnish, Arab and Swedish. > > Importantly, for each language I am looking for both male and female spea= kers, and for some decent quality of the audio recordings. I am not looking= for phonetic transcriptions or for insanely long excerpts (indeed our stim= uli need to be 1.5 s long). Hi Bruno, The Norwegian Language Council through the websites of the National Library hosts three databases recorded in Swedish, Norwegian and Danish, respectively. The quality of the recordings is rather high and the databases are entirely free. You can find all the data at the link below http://www.nb.no/Tilbud/Forske/Spraakbanken/Tilgjengelege-ressursar/Taledat= abasar The documentation is in Norwegian, but perhaps google translate can help. Hope this meets your requirements. Good luck! Giampiero --=20 Giampiero Salvi Associate Professor KTH, School of Computer Science and Communication http://www.speech.kth.se/~giampi