Introduction
Corpora of spoken language contain transcriptions of spontaneous or planned speech, such as broadcast news or elicited narratives and dialogues. They are often aligned with the accompanying recordings. They are an invaluable resource for various kinds of linguistic research, such as phonology, conversational analysis, and dialectology. Such corpora are carefully sampled and rich in sociodemographic metadata.
There are 129 spoken corpora in the CLARIN infrastructure, 118 of which contain both the transcriptions of spoken or spontaneous speech and the associated recordings, and 11 only the transcriptions. Most of the corpora are monolingual, accounting for the following 15 languages: Arabic, Czech, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Nepali, Norwegian, Polish, Skoti Saami, Slovenian, Spanish, and Swedish. In the vast majority of cases, the corpora can be directly downloaded from the national repositories or queried through easy-to-use online search environments. They are also richly tagged, many with mark-up specific to speech corpora, such as phonemic and prosodic annotation.
We first provide overviews of the corpora that are already part of the CLARIN infrastructure and then list those that have not yet been integrated.
For comments, changes of the existing content or inclusion of new corpora, send us an email.
This website was last updated on 5 July 2021.
Spoken corpora in the CLARIN infrastructure
Corpora with transcriptions and audio recordings
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Aalto University DSP Course Conversation Corpus 2013-2016, Downloadable Version Size: 5200 utterances |
Finnish |
This corpus contains spontaneous conversations. The corpus is available for download from FIN-CLARIN. |
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Size: 2 hours |
German |
This corpus provides data for examining the pronunciation of gender-neutral forms in German. The recordings took place at the IPS in the Munich region. 56 texts were recorded from 40 speakers. The texts came from newspapers, websites, administration offices, social services, etc., and were modified to contain either one of the three gender-neutral forms or the extended form. Each of the speakers read the 56 sentences, with target words, 25 % each, asterisk, underscore, uppercase-I or the feminine plural-form in a counterbalancing measures design. Filler sentences for this study are not a part of the corpus but will be part of further investigations. That means, that there are 56 recordings per session. |
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Size: 47 hours |
German |
The speech corpus aGender contains speech sample recordings over public telephone lines with read and (semi-)spontaneous speech. Native German speakers called a voice portal from their private phone, and read text + answered some open questions. The purpose of the corpus is the automatic detection of gender and/or age (7 mixed classes ranging from 7 - 80 years). The corpus contains the voices of 945 German speakers (approx. minimum of 100 speakers per class), each delivering 18 speech items in up to six different sessions. |
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Air Traffic Control Communication Size: 20 hours |
English |
This corpus contains recordings of communication between air traffic controllers and pilots The corpus is available for download from LINDAT and through the concordancer KonText. |
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Licence: CC BY 4.0 |
Arabic |
This corpus is available for download from the Oxford Text Archive. For the relevant publication, see Halabi (2016) |
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Audioatlas Siebenbuergisch-Saechsischer Dialekte Size: 450,000 words |
Bavarian, German, Romanian |
This corpus contains 2274 recordings (approx. 360h) of spoken dialectal German (Saxonian) recorded in Transilvania (Romania) in approx. 250 different locations. This up-to-now unpublished material has been collected on analog tape in the 1960s and 70s by different linguists based at the universities of Bukarest, Hermannstadt and Klausenburg. |
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Size: 330,000 words, 65 hours |
German |
This corpus contains interviews in German extraterritorial varieties. The corpus is available for download and online browsing via the Database of Spoken German (AGD @ IDS Mannheim). |
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Size: 94 hours |
German |
This corpus contains recordings of 162 speakers while being sober and intoxicated. Beginning with version 3, this corpus edition also contains an emuR compatible database version of the corpus (with a minor bugfix in the database in version 3.1). |
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BAS Database for Signer-Independent Continuous Sign Language Recognition Size: 55 hours |
German |
The contains both isolated and continuous utterances of various signers. Since we use a vision-based approach for sign language recognition the corpus was recorded on video. For quick random access to individual frames, each video clip is stored as a sequence of images. The vocabulary comprises 450 basic signs in German Sign Language (DGS) representing different word types. Based on this vocabulary, overall 780 sentences were constructed. |
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BAS Regional Variants of German - Juveniles Size: 100 hours |
German |
The corpus contains both read and non-scripted German utterances. It comprises the original RVG prompts (telephone numbers, sentences, commands, digits, etc.) plus spellings, date and time expressions, and free form responses to questions, e.g. "What are you wearing?", "How did you get here?", etc. The speakers were adolescents between 13 and 20 years of age, recruited in public schools in Munich and the suburbs. More than 95% of the speakers have German as their mother language, and almost all of them attended school in Bavaria; 89 of them were male and 93 female. |
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BAS Siemens Hoergeraete Corpus Size: 24 hours |
German |
This is a corpus of spontaneous, relatively casual dialogues in German. Each pair of dialogue partners is recorded conversing under real-noise conditions (in a noisy cafeteria and in a car going at different velocities), as well as in a studio at various levels of lombard noise played directly into the subjects' ears. |
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Size: 16.2 hours |
German |
The corpus comprises a collection of user queries to a naturally spoken Web interface with the main focus on the soccer world series in 2006. The recordings include 156 field recordings using a hand-held UMTS device (one person, SmartWeb Handheld Corpus SHC), 99 field recordings with video capture of the primary speaker and a secondary speaker (SmartWeb Video Corpus SVC) as well as 36 mobile recordings performed on a BMW motorbike (one speaker, SmartWeb Motorbike Corpus SMC). |
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Size: 17 hours |
German |
This database contains speech signals of dialogues in which a subject was recorded during a conversation via a spontaneous speech translation system. The response of the system was designed to invoke emotions (e.g. anger) in the subjects. It is part of the larger Verbmobil 2 speech data collection. Starting from BAS Clarin Respository version 2, the database is also distributed as an emuR comptatible emu database. |
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Size: 14 hours |
German |
The ZipTel telephone speech database contains recordings of people applying for a SpeechDat prompt sheet via telephone. For the SpeechDat data collection, calls for participation were published in "phone", the customer magazine of the mobile telephone provider "e-plus", and in numerous newspapers all over Germany. In these calls, a telephone number was given where callers could order a SpeechDat prompt sheet. The calls were recorded by an automatic telephone server; callers were asked to provide name, address and telephone number. The ZipTel telephone speech database consists of 1957 recording sessions with a total of 7746 signal files. A recording session corresponds to one phone call, each signal file contains a single recorded utterance from the recording session. |
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Size: 10 hours |
German |
This corpus contains broadcast TV debates The corpus is available for download and online browsing via the Database of Spoken German (AGD @ IDS Mannheim). |
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Size: 260,000 words, 28 hours |
German |
This corpus contains narrative interviews on German reunification. The corpus is available for download and online browsing via the Database of Spoken German (AGD @ IDS Mannheim). |
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Bielefeld Speech and Gesture Alignment Corpus Size: 9881 words |
German |
The corpus is made up of 25 dialogs of interlocutors (50), who engage in a spatial communication task combining direction-giving and sight description. Six of those dialogues with data only from the direction giver are available including audio (*.wav) and video (*.mp4) data. There are 1764 isolated gestures in the corpus |
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Biographische und Reiseerzählungen Size: 50,000 words, 6 hours |
German |
This corpus contains narrative and biographic interviews. The corpus is available for download and online browsing via the Database of Spoken German (AGD @ IDS Mannheim). |
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Boston University Radio Speech Corpus Size: 7 hours |
English |
This corpus contains recordings and texts from radio news. |
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Buckeye Corpus of Conversational Speech Annotation: phonetic labels |
English |
This corpus contains an interview. The corpus is available for download from ORTOLANG. For the relevant publication, see Pitt et al. (2005) |
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Budapest Sociolinguistic Interview - version 2 Size: 270,000 words |
Hungarian |
This corpus contains sociolinguistic interviews conducted with 50 individuals. The corpus is available for download and through a dedicated concordancer. For the relevant publication, see Kontra and Váradi (1997) |
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Catalan in a bilingual context (PhonCAT) Size: 144 hours |
Spanish (Catalan) |
This corpus contains read, elicited and spontaneous speech. For the relevant publication, see Benet et al. (2012) |
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Size: 5 hours |
German |
This corpus contains speech recordings of normal hearing speakers and speakers equipped with Cochlear Implants (CI). Speech data were collected with the software SpeechRecorder, for each recording a BPF file was generated (*.par). |
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Size: 323,595 words |
French |
This is a collection containing around 40 corpora which contain social interactions in different contexts: professional, private, institutional, commercial, medical, and educational situations. Most of the corpora can be downloaded and queried through a dedicated concordancer. |
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CLIPS : corpora e lessici di italiano parlato e scritto Size: 100 hours |
Italian |
This corpus contains speech from 15 different cities in Italy. |
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Cluster Production in Cochlear Implant Patients (diachronic data) Size: 14 min |
German |
This corpus contains diachronic speech recordings from three cochlear implant (CI) users. For data used in the corresponding synchronic study, please refer to the CI_2 corpora. This corpus contains recordings used for the analysis of the temporal dynamics of the consonant cluster /ʃtr/. |
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Consecutive and Simultaneous Interpreting (CoSi) Size: 6 hours |
Portuguese, English |
This corpus contains lectures in Portuguese with simultaneous interpretation in English. |
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Consonant Cluster Production in Cochlear Implant Patients Size: 2 hours |
German |
This corpous contains German speech recordings of 48 cochlear implant users (CI) and 48 speakers without hearing impairment (control group, KG). |
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Size: 16.5 hours |
German |
This is a corpus for speech synthesis using concatenative technique. |
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Size: 1.5 hours |
German |
This corpus contains recordings of pairs of brothers between the ages of 19 and 31. The native and recorded language is German. Recordings consist of minimal pairs in carrier sentences, a different set of sentences aimed at elicitating the full range of German vowels ('Berliner Sätze'), and a spontaneous dialogue about a TV-series. Recordings were made via a table microphone (studio quality) and via telephone (telephone quality). |
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Size: 3 hours |
Italian |
This is a sub-corpus of the original Italian CLIPS corpus (Corpora e Lessici dell'Italiano Parlato e Scritto) that is manually annotated and covers only 15 maptask dialogues recorded in 15 locations by local speaker pairs. this corpus contains 3228 inspected and partially repaired WAV signal files, each containing one dialogue turn (*.wav), 3228 corrected original CLIPS annotation files (*.acs, *.phn, *.std, *.wrd), 3228 BAS Partitur files containing the annotation tiers ORT, KAN and SAP (*.par), 3228 EMU database annotation files (*.vot, *.hlb) covering 30 maptask dialogues performed by 30 speakers (each speaker pair performing two different map tasks) recorded in 15 different locations in Italy in 2000-2004. |
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Corpus de Français Parlé Parisien des années 2000 Licence: CC-BY |
French |
This corpus contains interviews. The corpus is available for download from a dedicated webpage. |
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Corpus for the Study of Contemporary French Size: 10 million words, 350 hours |
French |
This corpus contains debates, classroom interactions, literary and scientific texts, regional and national press, etc. The corpus is available for through a dedicated concordancer. |
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Size: 24.5 hours |
German |
This is a corpus of telephone conversations including prompted descriptions of typical forms (Berlin public transport ticket, invoices, Austrian parking tickets, newsstand receipts, money transfer forms) found in everyday life. |
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Size: 25.5 hours |
German |
This corpus is a collection of more than 3900 spontaneous speech items recorded as extra material during the German SpeechDat-II project. Speakers were asked to report what they had been doing during the last hour: "Was haben Sie in der letzten Stunde gemacht?". This item was recorded as the last item of the recording session. Speakers had become acquainted with the recording procedure and they were quite relaxed because they knew that this item was the last to be recorded. This resulted in quite natural, colloquial speech, sometimes with marked regional accent. |
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Corpus of American Nordic Speech (CANS) Size: 251,000 tokens |
Norwegian, Swedish |
This corpus contains interviews, conversations. Norwegian and Swedish dialects in America. The corpus is available through a Tekstlab concordancer. For the relevant publication, see Johannessen (2015) |
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Size: 41 hours |
Estonian |
This corpus contains recordings of academic lectures and oral conference presentations. The corpus is available for download from a dedicated webpage. |
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Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 |
French |
This corpus contains recordings of the everyday speech of Orléans residents between 1969 and 1974. The corpus is available for download from the Huma-num repository. |
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Size: 36 hours |
Estonian |
This corpus contains telephone interviews from different radio programmes. The corpus is available for download from (CELR distribution). |
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Size: 19 hours |
Estonian |
This corpus contains public broadcast news. The corpus is available for download from META-SHARE (CELR distribution). |
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Size: 32 hours |
German |
The corpus is a collection of more than 500 speakers of different dialect regions of Germany. The recordings were made using four different microphones (two in low and two in high quality) and consist of single digits, connected digits, phone numbers, phonetically balanced sentences, computer command phrases prompted on a screen, and 1 min spontaneous speech (monologue). The speakers were recorded in normal office environments. The backround noise was limited to the usual noise in office environment, eg. door slam, backround crosstalk, phone ringing, paper rustle, PC noise, etc. |
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Size: 1.5 hours |
German |
The corpus contains speech of 88 different speakers, reading the German story 'Der Nordwind und die Sonne'. Subcorpus T contains the recordings of 16 native Germans (L1). The other 72 speakers which were born and educated in other countries (L2) are pooled in subcorpus C. Every speaker has a distinct accent. |
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Size: 10 hours |
German |
The corpus contains read and non-prompted German and mother tongue speech of 70 different speakers from 17 mother tongues (L1) in a variety of speaking styles e.g. reading, retelling, free talk etc. |
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Size: 9 hours |
German |
The corpus contains read speech of 10 different speakers with screen prompted 'automobil diagnosis phrases' recorded under real conditions in two different car maintenance halls. The language is German. All speakers are male native Germans and have never participated in such a task before. They are all experts in the field of car diagnosis. Each speaker has spoken 800 3-7 word utterances derived from 100 different sentences (see sc2_ort.txt) resulting in a total of 8000 utterances. |
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Size: 30.6 hours |
German |
The corpus comprises a collection of user queries to a naturally spoken Web interface with the main focus on the soccer world series in 2006. The recordings include field recordings using a hand-held UMTS device (one person, SmartWeb Handheld Corpus SHC), field recordings with video capture of the primary speaker and a secondary speaker (SmartWeb Video Corpus SVC) as well as mobile recordings performed on a BMW motorbike (one speaker, SmartWeb Motorboke Corpus SMC). |
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Size: 31.5 hours |
German |
The corpus contains read speech of 101 different speakers (50 female, 50 male, 1 unknown). Each speaker has read approx. 100 sentences from either the SZ subcorpus or the CeBit subcorpus. The language is German. The subcorpus SZ contains 544 sentences from newspaper articles ("Sueddeutsche Zeitung"). The subcorpus CeBit contains 483 sentences from newspaper articles about the CeBit 1995. Each subcorpus is divided into 5 parts of approx. 100 utterances each. Every speaker read only one part of one subcorpus (with some exceptions), thus resulting in a total of 10.387 recorded utterances |
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Size: 32.8 hours |
German |
The corpus contains read speech of 10 different speakers. Each speaker has read approx. 1000 sentences from a German news paper corpus, thus resulting in a total of approx. 10000 recorded utterances. The recording took place at the Institut fuer Phonetik, University of Munich, Germany in 1994. |
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Size: 77 hours |
German, English, Japanese |
The Verbmobil (VM) dialog database is a collection of German, American and Japanese dialog recordings in the appointment scheduling task. The data were collected during the first phase (1993 - 1996) of the German VM project funded by the German Ministry of Science and Technology (BMBF). Starting with version 3, the corpus is also provided as an emuR comptatible database. |
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Size: 65.8 hours |
German, English, Japanese |
Verbmobil 2 contains the speech of 401 speakers participating in 810 recordings. The emotional tagged recordings are not part of this edition but are collected inthe corpus 'BAS VMEmo'. The total VM2 corpus amounts to 17.6GB of data containing 58961 conversational turns distributed on 39 CD-R. VM2 contains dialogs in German, English, Japanese and mixed language pairs (partly with interpreter). The domain is appointment scheduling, travel planing, leisure time planing. Starting from version 3, the corpus is also available in emuR compatible emuDB format (see annotation files ending in *_annot.json). |
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Czech Malach Cross-lingual Speech Retrieval Test Collection Size: 592 hours |
Czech, English, French, German, Spanish |
This corpus contains interviews with survivors of the Holocaust. The corpus is available for download from LINDAT. |
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Size: 10,000 words, 2 hours |
German |
This corpus contains broadcasts in standard German. The corpus is available for download and online browsing via the Database of Spoken German (AGD @ IDS Mannheim). |
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Size: 212,000 words, 385 hours |
German, (some Sorbian) |
This corpus contains interviews and elicited speech in German dialects. The corpus is available for download and online browsing via the Database of Spoken German (AGD @ IDS Mannheim). |
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Deutsche Mundarten: ehemalige deutsche Ostgebiete Size: 838,000 words, 461 hours |
German |
This corpus contains interviews and elicited speech in German dialects. The corpus is available for download and online browsing via the Database of Spoken German (AGD @ IDS Mannheim). |
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Deutsche Mundarten: Zwirner-Korpus Size: 4 million words, 1076 hours |
German, (some Frisian and Dutch) |
This corpus contains interviews and elicited speech in German dialects. The corpus is available for download and online browsing via the Database of Spoken German (AGD @ IDS Mannheim). |
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Deutsche Standardsprache: König-Korpus Size: 50,000 words, 6 hours |
German |
This corpus contains interviews and elicited speech in standard German The corpus is available for download and online browsing via the Database of Spoken German (AGD @ IDS Mannheim). |
Excerpt - complete corpus (around 120 hours) currently in the process of curation |
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Deutsche Umgangssprachen: Pfeffer-Korpus Size: 646,000 words, 80 hours |
German |
This corpus contains interviews in regional varieties of German. The corpus is available for download and online browsing via the Database of Spoken German (AGD @ IDS Mannheim). |
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DIALEKT v1: dialectal corpus with multi-tier transcription Size: 100,000 words |
Czech |
This corpus contains traditional dialectological material, mostly unprepared monologue-type speech. The corpus is available download (upon request) and through the concordancer KonText. For the relevant publication, see Komrsková et al. (2018) |
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Size: 140,000 words, 15 hours |
German |
This corpus contains authentic interaction from various domains. The corpus is available for download and online browsing via the Database of Spoken German (AGD @ IDS Mannheim). |
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Size: 13 hours |
English |
This corpus contains recorded lectures and seminars. The corpus is available for download from FIN-CLARIN. |
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Size: 160,000 words, 12 hours |
German |
This corpus contains elicited conflict interaction. The corpus is available for download and online browsing via the Database of Spoken German (AGD @ IDS Mannheim). |
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Size: 232,000 words, 285 hours |
German |
This corpus contains interviews in German extraterritorial varieties. The corpus is available for download and online browsing via the Database of Spoken German (AGD @ IDS Mannheim). |
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Emigrantendeutsch in Israel: Wiener in Jerusalem Size: 225,000 words, 51 hours |
German |
This corpus contains interviews in German extraterritorial varieties. The corpus is available for download and online browsing via the Database of Spoken German (AGD @ IDS Mannheim). |
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Size: 1.3 million words |
Estonian |
This corpus contains interviews. The corpus is available for download from META-SHARE (CELR distribution). |
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Estonian Emotional Speech Corpus Size: 1234 sentences |
Estonian |
This corpus contains read sentences that express anger, joy and sadness, or are neutral. TThe corpus is available for download from META-SHARE (CELR distribution). For the relevant publication, see Altrov and Pajupuu (2012) |
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Estonian North Wind and the Sun Corpus v.1.0.3 Annotation: word segmentation and phonemes in SAMPA |
Estonian |
This corpus contains recordings of the tale “Põhjatuul ja päike” (North Wind and the Sun) read by the same speakers who participated in the Phonetic Corpus of Estonian Spontaneous Speech. The corpus is available for download from META-SHARE (CELR distribution). |
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Size: 2 hours |
German, English, French, Spanish, Turkish, Polish, Vietnamese, Swedish, Norwegian, Italian, Russian, Afrikaans, Portuguese |
This corpus is a demo of the EXMARaLDA system. The corpus is available for download from a CLARIN-D repository. |
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Faroese Danish Corpus Hamburg 0.2.dan (FADAC-0.2.dan Hamburg) Annotation: EXMARaLDA |
Faroese, Danish |
This corpus contains informal interviews. |
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Size: 18 hours |
Finnish |
This corpus contains radio and TV broadcasts. The corpus is available for download from FIN-CLARIN and for online querying through the LAT-platform. |
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Follow-up Study of Dialects of Finnish Size: 12,200 Hours |
Finnish |
This corpus contains interviews. This corpus is available for online querying through the LAT-platform. |
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Forschungs- und Lehrkorpus gesprochenes Deutsch Size: 2.3 million words, 230 hours |
German |
This corpus contains authentic interactions from various domains. The corpus is available for download and online browsing via the Database of Spoken German (AGD @ IDS Mannheim). |
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Gesprochene Wissenschaftssprache Kontrastiv Size: 760,000 words, 92 hours |
German, English, Polish, Bulgarian |
This corpus contains academic interaction. The corpus is available for download and online browsing via the Database of Spoken German (AGD @ IDS Mannheim). |
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Size: 3 hours |
German |
WaSeP contains recordings of one female and one male speaker, both professional actors, uttering single German nouns and pseudowords in multiple emotional prosodies. This edition improves the segmentation of the phonetic annotation, adds Praat TextGrid files and removes a few irregular items. |
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Size: 1.4 million tokens, 123 hours |
German (L2 and L1), English, Polish, Italian (L1) |
This corpus contains transcripts and audio recordings of spoken academic discourse, primarily talks including discussions and oral exams. For the relevant publication, see Fandrych et al. (2014) |
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Grundstrukturen: Freiburger Korpus Size: 600,000 words, 70 hours |
German |
This corpus contains authentic interaction from various domains. The corpus is available for download and online browsing via the Database of Spoken German (AGD @ IDS Mannheim). |
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Hamburg Adult Bilingual LAnguage (HABLA) Size: 79 hours |
German, French, Italian |
This corpus contains interviews. For the relevant publication, see Kupisch et al. (2012) |
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Hamburg Corpus of Argentinean Spanish (HaCASpa) Size: 19 hours |
Spanish (Argentinian) |
This corpus contains spontaneous speech and reading tasks. For the relevant publication, see Gabriel et al. (2010) |
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Hamburg Corpus of Polish in Germany (HamCoPoliG) Size: 38 hours |
Polish |
This corpus contains spontaneous speech and reading tasks. For the relevant publication, see Czachór (2012) |
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Size: 3 hours |
German |
This corpus contains task-oriented communcation (e.g., a film retelling) in the context of studying adult L2 acquisition. |
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Licence: ELRA |
Hungarian |
This corpus contains speech tasks involving adults and children. The corpus is available for download from the ELRA catalogue. |
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Size: 50,000 words (41 minutes/speaker) |
Dutch |
The corpus is available for download from an informal webpage. |
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Size: 115 hours |
Dutch |
The corpus contains recordings of human-machine interaction and read speech performed by children, non-native speakers and senior people. The corpus is available download from the Dutch Language Institute. |
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Size: 1.5 million tokens |
Norwegian |
This corpus contains interviews and conversation in Norwegian dialects. The corpus is available through a Tekstlab concordancer (account needed). |
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Size: 47 hours |
Italian |
This corpus is a documentation of the South Italian dialect 'Calabrese'. The main objects when building this corpus were the analysis of syntactical structures and their geolinguistic mapping in form of interactive, webbased cartography. The corpus consists of several audio files containing recordings of some sixty speakers of Calabrese one half of which having migration experience in Germany the other half almost always having stayed in Calabria. Furthermore the informants were selected equally balanced regarding gender, age and geographical origin. Of most of the informants there exist at least one recording with spontanous speech and one recording based on stimuli each. |
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Size: 5000 sentences, 4.5 hours |
Mbochi, French |
This corpus is available for download from the ELRA catalogue. |
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Mehrsprachige Kinder im Vorschulalter Size: 17,000 words, 13 hours |
German |
This corpus contains elicitation tasks with pre-school children. The corpus is available for download and online browsing via the Database of Spoken German (AGD @ IDS Mannheim). |
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MultiCHannel Articulatory database: English Size: 5 hours |
English |
This coprus features a set of 460 short sentences designed to include the main connected speech processes in English (e.g. assimilations, weak forms ...). All recordings made in the same sound damped studio at the Edinburgh Speech Production Facility based in the department of Speech and Language Sciences, Queen Margaret University College, UK. The database contains audio files, laryngograph waveforms, electromagnetic articulograph (EMA) tracks and electropalatograph (EPG) tracks. |
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Natural Media Motion-Capture Corpus Size: 3 hours |
German |
The corpus consists of data from 18 participants, whose task was to describe nine objects each to an experimenter, without using everyday vocabulary about forms, sizes or objects. The participants were recorded on audio and several video cameras, and their hand movements were recorded using an optical VICON motion capture system. |
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Nautilus Speaker Characterization Size: 155 hours |
German |
This corpus contains scripted, semi-spontaneous, and spontaneous human-human dialogs. In total, 300 speakers of German without noticeable accent participated and were recorded in an acoustically-isolated room. Interactions between speakers and their interlocutor are provided in separate mono files, accompanied by timestamps and tags that define the speaker's turns. The speech corresponding to one of the semi-spontaneous dialogs was labeled with respect to perceived interpersonal speaker characteristics and naive voice descriptions. These labels are found alongside the documentation. |
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Size: 31 hours 26 minutes |
Nepali |
This corpus is available for download from the ELRA catalogue. |
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Nganasan Spoken Language Corpus (NSLC) Size: 32 hours |
Nganasan, Russian |
This second version 0.2 of the corpus is a subcorpus that comprises 177 communications, 136 of which contain an aligned audio recording, with glossed (Toolbox/FLEx) and annotated (EXMARaLDA) transcripts from 57 speakers. All texts have been translated into Russian and English, some also into German. The corpus also contains rich metadata on the communications and speakers. |
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Size: 2,754,289 tokens |
Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Övdalian |
This corpus consists of pontaneous speech data from dialects of the North Germanic languages across all of the Nordic countries. The linguistic data in the corpus comes from a variety of sources, (see homepage - Data Collection), recorded in 1998 - 2015. The corpus transcribed and linked to audio and video, has a map function, and can be searched in a large variety of ways. The corpus can be accessed online via a concordancer provided by the TekstLab (a CLARINO node). |
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Size: 1 million tokens |
Norwegian |
This corpus contains interviews and conversations in Oslo sociolects. The corpus is available through a Tekstlab concordancer (account needed). |
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ORAL2013: balanced corpus of informal spoken Czech (transcriptions & audio) Size: 2.8 million words |
Czech |
This corpus contains informal conversations. The corpus is available for download from LINDAT and through the concordancer KonText. For the relevant publication, see Benešová et al. (2015) |
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Size: 1 million words |
Czech |
This corpus contains informal conversations. The corpus is available for download from LINDAT and through the concordancer KonText. For the relevant publication, see Komrsková et al. (2018) |
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Size: 35 hours |
Czech |
This corpus contains transcribed recordings from the Czech political discussion broadcast “Otázky Václava Moravce“. The corpus is available for download from LINDAT and through the concordancer KonText. |
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PhattSessionz Adolescents Speech Corpus Size: 208 hours |
German |
This corpus contains recordings of 1019 adolescent speakers of German (age range 12-20). The recordings were performed via the WWW in public schools (Gymnasium) in 45 locations in Germany. The speech material recorded is a superset of the German SpeechDat-II and RVG-I corpora. |
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Size: 21.4 hours |
German |
The corpus contains read speech of 201 different speakers. Each speaket read a subcorpus of 450 different sentence equivalents (including alphanumericals and two shorter passages of prose text); 8 speakers read the whole sentence corpus; 40 speakers read the subcorpora BR and MR; 112 speakers read 70 utterances of the rest corpus, including alphabet, numbers 0 to 12 and stories. The corpus contains a total of 21587 recorded utterances. |
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Size: 4.3 hours |
German |
The corpus contains read speech of 16 different speakers, 6 women and 10 men. Each speaker reads a corpus of 200 different sentences from a train query task. They were recorded at three different sites in Germany (University of Kiel, University of Bonn, University of Munich). The language is German. The corpus contains a total of 3200 recorded utterances. |
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Phonetic Corpus of Estonian Spontaneous Speech v.1.0.4 Size: 635,000 words, 90 hours |
Estonian |
This corpus contains spontaneous speech by speakers with different dialectological and social backgrounds. The corpus is available for download from META-SHARE (CELR distribution). |
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Phonologie du Français Contemporain Licence: CC-BY |
French |
This corpus is available for download from a dedicated webpage. |
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Plenary Sessions of the Parliament of Finland Size: 22.5 million words |
Finnish, Swedish |
This corpus contains the proceedings of the Finnish Parliament. The corpus is available through a dedicated webpage and through the concordancer Korp. |
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Prague DaTabase of Spoken Czech 1.0 Size: 770,000 tokens, 7324 minutes |
Czech |
This corpus contains spontaneous dialogue. The corpus is available for download from LINDAT. For the relevant publication, see Hajič et al. (2008) |
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Size: 218 tokens |
Finnish |
This corpus contains spontaneous conversations. This corpus is available for online querying through the concordancer Korp. |
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Size: 100,000 words, 10 hours |
German |
This corpus contains interviews in German extraterritorial varieties. The corpus is available for download and online browsing via the Database of Spoken German (AGD @ IDS Mannheim). |
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Size: 100 hours |
Finnish |
This corpus contains interviews. This corpus is available for online querying through the LAT platform and through the concordancer Korp. |
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Size: 92 hours |
Swiss German |
This corpus contains recordings of adolescent pupils in Switzerland. |
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Sibilant Production in Cochlear Implant Patients Size: 1 hour |
German |
This corpous contains German speech recordings of 48 cochlear implant users (CI) and 48 speakers without hearing impairment (control group, KG). CI_2_Sibilants contains recordings used for the analysis of /s/ and /ʃ/ in the following words: 'Tasse', 'Tasche'. |
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Sibilant Production in Cochlear Implant Patients (diachronic data) Size: unknown |
German |
This corpus contains diachronic speech recordings from three cochlear implant (CI) users. For data used in the corresponding synchronic study, please refer to the CI_2 corpora. CI_3_Sibilants contains recordings used for the analysis of /s/ and /ʃ/ in the following words: 'Tasse', 'Tasche'. |
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Skolt Saami Documentation Corpus (2016) Size: 19 hours |
Skolt Saami |
This corpus contains interviews. This corpus is available for online querying through the LAT platform. |
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Size: 11 hours |
German |
This corpus contains multi modal recordings of 65 actors who use the SmartKom system. SmartKom Home should be an intelligent communication assistant for the private environment. Naive users were asked to test a 'prototype' for a market study not knowing that the system was in fact controlled by two human operators. They were asked to solve two tasks in a period of 4,5 min while they were left alone with the system. The instruction was kept to a minimum; in fact the user only knew that the system is able to understand speech, gestures and even mimical expressions and should more or less communicate like a human. |
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Size: 11 hours |
German |
This corpus contains multi modal recordings of 73 actors who use the SmartKom system. SmartKom Mobil is a portable PDA equipped with a net link and additional intelligent communication devices. Naive users were asked to test a 'prototype' for a market study not knowing that the system was in fact controlled by two human operators. They were asked to solve two tasks in a period of 4,5 min while they were left alone with the system. The instruction was kept to a minimum; in fact the user only knew that the system is able to understand speech, gestures and should more or less communicate like a human. Experiments were not performed in the field but rather in a studio-like environment. |
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Size: 11 hours |
German |
This corpus contains multi modal recordings of 86 actors who use the SmartKom system. SmartKom Public is comparable to a traditional public phone booth but equipped with additional intelligent communication devices. Naive users were asked to test a 'prototype' for a market study not knowing that the system was in fact controlled by two human operators. They were asked to solve two tasks in a period of 4,5 min while they were left alone with the system. The instruction was kept to a minimum; in fact the user only knew that the system is able to understand speech, gestures and even mimical expressions and should more or less communicate like a human. |
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Size: 6.3 hours |
German |
The corpus comprises a collection of user queries to a naturally spoken Web interface with the main focus on the soccer world series in 2006. The SMC corpus itself contains 36 mobile recordings performed on a BMW motorbike. |
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Size: 1000 hours |
Czech |
This corpus contains talks on Christian mysticism given by Karel Makoň. The corpus is available for download from LINDAT. |
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Spoken production of gender-neutral nouns in German Size: 2 hours |
German |
This corpus examines the pronunciation of different genderneutral forms in German. Various source texts were used, like newspaper articles, websites, etc. |
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Size: 270 000 tokens |
Norwegian |
This corpus contains informal interviews in Oslo sociolects. The corpus is available through a Tekstlab concordancer (account needed). |
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Size: 440,300 tokens |
Norwegian |
This corpus contains recordings and transcripts from the Norwegian Big Brother in 2001. The corpus is available through a Tekstlab concordancer. |
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Size: 120 hours |
Finnish, Karelian |
This corpus contains interviews. The corpus is available for download from FIN-CLARIN. |
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The Finnish Dialect Syntax Archive Size: 1.2 million words |
Finnish |
This corpus contains interviews. The corpus is available for online querying through the LAT platform and through the concordancer Korp. |
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The Icelandic Spoken Language Corpus Size: 536,000 tokens |
Icelandic |
This corpus contains four different subcorpora: (1) Spontaneous conversations, from the project ÍSTAL (An Icelandic Spoken Language Bank), (2) Group conversations, from the project MIN (Modern loanwords in the Nordic languages), (3) Parliamentary debates, (4) Conversations of teenagers with other teenagers and adults The corpus is available for download from CLARIN-IS (as a part of the Icelandic Gigaword Corpus) and for search through the concordancer Korp. For the relevant publication, see Steingrímsson et al. (2018) |
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The Karl-Eberhard-Corpus of spontaneously spoken conversations in Southern German Size: 40 hours |
German |
This corpus contains 79 speakers of Southern German. Two speakers, usually acquainted with each other, had an one hour long conversation in separate booths. |
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The Longitudinal Corpus of Finnish Spoken in Helsinki (1970s, 1990s and 2010s) Size: 210 hours |
Finnish |
This corpus contains interviews. The corpus is available for online querying through the LAT platform and through the concordancer Korp. |
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The Zurich Tangram Corpus - BAS Edition Size: 48 hours |
German |
This corpus contains tasks, where one subject (the instructor) describes different Tangram figures to another subject (the receiver) so that the receiver can recreate the same order of figures that the instructor has in front of them. The subjects initially don't know each other and work together to solve these tasks in three consecutive sessions. This edition only features the transcribed segments, not those in between, and uses separate files for the subject. |
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The Zurich Tangram Corpus - UZH Edition Size: 48 hours |
German |
This corpus contains tasks, where one subject (the instructor) describes different Tangram figures to another subject (the receiver) so that the receiver can recreate the same order of figures that the instructor has in front of them. The subjects initially don't know each other and work together to solve these tasks in three consecutive sessions. This edition features the complete recordings, but lacking phone and word segmentation. Subjects audio tracks are combined into stereo files. If you would like just the transcribed segments with separate files for the subjects or want the word and phone segmentation see corpus ZTC_BAS. |
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Voice Onset Time in Cochlear Implant Patients Size: 35 min |
German |
This corpous contains German speech recordings of 48 cochlear implant users (CI) and 48 speakers without hearing impairment (control group, KG). It contains recordings used for the analysis of voice onset time in /t/ in the word 'teilen'. |
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Voice Onset Time in Cochlear Implant Patients (diachronic data) Size: unknown |
German |
This corpus contains diachronic speech recordings from three cochlear implant (CI) users. For data used in the corresponding synchronic study, please refer to the CI_2 corpora. CI_3_Sibilants contains recordings used for the analysis of /s/ and /ʃ/ in the following words: 'Tasse', 'Tasche'. CI_3_VOT contains recordings used for the analysis of voice onset time in /t/ in the word 'teilen'. |
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Vowel Production in Cochlear Implant Patients Size: 2 hours |
German |
This corpous contains German speech recordings of 48 cochlear implant users (CI) and 48 speakers without hearing impairment (control group, KG). It contains recordings used for the analysis of sevel long, lexically stressed vowels in the words 'Taten', 'stetig', 'Toter', 'Stute', 'töten', 'Tüte' and 'kriegen'. |
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Zweite Generation deutschsprachiger Migranten in Israel Size: 125 hours |
German |
This corpus contains interviews in German extraterritorial varieties. The corpus is available for download and online browsing via the Database of Spoken German (AGD @ IDS Mannheim). |
Corpora with transcriptions only
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ORAL2008: Balanced corpus of informal spoken Czech Size: 1 million tokens |
Czech |
This corpus contains informal conversations. The corpus is available for download from LINDAT and through the concordancer KonText. For the relevant publication, see Benešová et al. (2015) |
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ORTOFON v1: balanced corpus of informal spoken Czech with multi-tier transcription (transcriptions) Size: 1 million tokens |
Czech |
This corpus contains informal conversations. The corpus is available for download from LINDAT and through the concordancer KonText. For the relevant publication, see Komrsková et al. (2018) |
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Prague Dependency Treebank of Spoken Language (PDTSL) 0.5 Size: 120,000 words |
Czech |
This corpus is available for download from LINDAT. |
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ParCorFull: A Parallel Corpus Annotated with Full Coreference Size: 160,000 tokens |
English, German |
This corpus contains planned speech and newswire. The corpus is available for download from LINDAT. |
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Size: 1005 hours |
English, German, Dutch |
This corpus contains transcripts of read Wikipedia articles The corpus is available for download from a CLARIN-D repository. For the relevant publication, see Köhn et al. (2016) |
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Size: 1 million words |
Estonian |
This corpus contains transcripts of recordings from various domains. |
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Size: 72 hours |
German, Spanish |
This corpus contains Speech tasks performed by bilingual children. For the relevant publication, see Ulloa Saceda et al. (2012) |
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Corpus of Doctor-Patient Conversations from Ahus Size: 958,830 tokens |
Norwegian |
This corpus contains doctor-patient conversations. The corpus is available through a Tekstlab concordancer (account needed). |
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Size: 1 million words, 120 hours |
Slovenian |
This corpus contains transcripts from radio and TV shows, school lessons, private conversations, business meetings The corpus is available for download from CLARIN.SI as well as through a dedicated webconcordancer. For the relevant publication, see Verdonik and Zwitter-Vitez (2011) |
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Spoken corpus Gos VideoLectures 3.0 (transcription) Size: 126,000 words |
Slovenian |
This corpus contains public academic speech. The corpus is available for download from CLARIN.SI and through the concordancer KonText. For the version with audio recordings, click here. For the relevant publication, see Verdonik (2018) |
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Size: 1,470,000 tokens |
Swedish |
This corpus is available through the concordancer Korp (account needed). |
Other spoken corpora
Other spoken corpora
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Griffith Corpus of Spoken Australian English Size: 32,134 words |
English |
This corpus is available for download and through the concordancer of the Australian National Corpus. |
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Size: 10 million words |
English |
This corpus contains face-to-face conversations between people who speak British English as their first language. The corpus is available through the CQP concordancer. |
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The Aston Corpus of West Midlands English (ACWME) Annotation: orthographically transcribed |
English |
This corpus contains recordings of performances - comedy, drama, poetry, song and story-telling - and related interviews with performers, members of the audience and local and national celebrities. The corpus is available for download from a dedicated webpage. |
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Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English
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English |
This corpus contains naturally occurring, non-scripted face-to-face interactions in English as a lingua franca (ELF). The corpus is available through a dedicated concordancer. |
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English, Italian, Spanish |
This corpus contains TV-broadcasts and elicited dialogues. |
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Babel - A Multi Language Database Annotation: orthographically transcribed |
Hungarian |
This corpus contains various elicited speech tasks. |
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BEA (Hungarian Spontaneous Speech Database) Size: 465 recordings |
Hungarian |
This corpus contains spontaneous speech. |
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Hungarian Broadcast News Database Size: 25,000 words, 3.5 hours |
Hungarian |
This corpus is available for download (upon request) from META-SHARE. |
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Hungarian Gigaword Corpus / "spoken language" subcorpus Size: 76 million words |
Hungarian |
This corpus contains radio broadcasts (reading aloud and spontaneous conversation) The corpus is available through the Hungarian Gigaword Corpus concordancer. |
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Hungarian Kindergarten Language Corpus Size: 192,000 words |
Hungarian |
This corpus contains elicited speech tasks (picture descriptions) and guided conversation with children. The corpus is available for download through META-SHARE. |
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Hungarian Reference Speech Database Size: 6 hours |
Hungarian |
This corpus contains reading tasks. The corpus is available for download (upon request) from META-SHARE. |
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Annotation: phonetic transcription |
Hungarian |
This corpus is available for download (upon request) from META-SHARE. |
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Size: 490,000 words |
Italian |
This corpus is available through a dedicated concordancer. |
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Annotation: orthographically transcribed |
Italian |
This corpus contains quasi-spontaneous dialogues (a map task). The corpus is available for download from a dedicated webpage. |
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Size: 700,000 words, 100 hours |
Italian |
This is a L2-learner corpus. The corpus is available for download from a dedicated webpage. |
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Selezione dal "Corpus di parlato telegiornalistico. Anni Sessanta vs. 2005 Annotation: orthographically transcribed |
Italian |
This corpus contains news broadcast. The corpus is available for download from a dedicated webpage. |
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SpIt-MDb (Spoken Italian - Multilevel Database) Annotation: orthographically transcribed |
Italian |
This corpus contains spontaneous speech. The corpus is available for download from a dedicated webpage. |
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Size: 83 documents, 768,005 words, 898,914 tokens |
Spanish |
This corpus consists of spontaneous conversations and semi-structured interviews recorded in Galicia between 2007 and 2015, which were orthographically transcribed and manually aligned to the audio files. The transcripts have been morphologically tagged and lemmatized with the statistical PoS-tagger XIADA. The corpus can be browsed via a dedicated search engine. The multiple functions of the search engine are fully described in the User Guide. For the relevant publication, see Barcala et al. (2018)#SEPVázquez Rozas and Barcala (2020) |
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Uralic Languages under the Influence (UraLUID) database Size: 108,000 tokens, 4 hours |
Udmurt, Tundra Nenets, Synya Khanty, Surgut Khanty |
This corpus contains narratives (e.g., folk storites). The corpus is available for download from a dedicated website. |
Publications on the spoken corpora
[Altrov and Pajupuu 2012] Rene Altrov, Hille Pajupuu. 2012. Estonian Emotional Speech Corpus: theoretical base and implementation.
[Barcala et al. 2018] Mario Barcala, Eva Domínguez, Alba Fernández, Raquel Rivas, Maria Paula Santalla, Victoria Vázquez, Rebeca Villapol. 2018. El corpus ESLORA de español oral: diseño, desarrollo y explotación. CHIMERA: Romance Corpora and Linguistic Studies 5 (2): 217–237.
[Benešová et al. 2015] Lucie Benešová, Michal Křen, Martina Waclawičová. 2015. Korpus spontánní mluvené češtiny ORAL2013.
[Benet et al. 2012] Ariadna Benet, Susana Cortés, Conxita Lleó. 2012. Phonoprosodic Corpus of Spoken Catalan (PhonCAT).
[Czachór 2012] Agnieszka Czachór. 2012. Corpus of Polish Spoken in Germany. Collecting and Analyzing Written & Spoken Data for Investigating Contact-Induced Change.
[Gabriel et al. 2010] Christoph Gabriel, Ingo Feldhausen, Andrea Pešková, Laura Colantoni, Su-Ar Lee, Valeria Arana, Leopoldo Labastía. 2010. Argentinian Spanish Intonation.
[Hajič et al. 2008] Jan Hajič, Silvie Cinková, Marie Mikulová, Petr Pajas, Jan Ptáček, Josef Toman, Zdeňka Urešová. 2008. PDTSL: An Annotated Resource For Speech Reconstruction.
[Halabi 2016] Nawar Halabi. 2016. Modern Standard Arabic Phonetics for Speech Synthesis.
[Johannessen 2015] Janne Bondi Johannessen. 2015. The Corpus of American Norwegian Speech (CANS).
[Komrsková et al. 2018] Zuzana Komrsková, Marie Kopřivová, David Lukeš, Petra Poukarová, Hana Goláňová. 2018. New Spoken Corpora of Czech: ORTOFON and DIALEKT.
[Kontra and Váradi 1997] Miklós Kontra and Tamás Váradi. 1997. The Budapest Sociolinguistic Interview.
[Köhn et al. 2016] Arne Köhn, Florian Stegen, Timo Baumann. 2016. Mining the Spoken Wikipedia for Speech Data and Beyond.
[Kupisch et al. 2012] Tanja Kupisch, Dagmar Barton, Giulia Bianchi, Ilse Stangen. 2012. “he HABLA-Corpus (German-French and German-Italian).
[Pitt et al. 2005] Mark Pitt, Keith Johnson, Elizabeth Hume; Scott Kiesling, William Raymond.2005. The Buckeye Corpus of Conversational Speech: Labeling Conventions and a Test of Transcriber Reliability.
[Steingrímsson et al. 2018] Steingrímsson, Steinþór, Sigrún Helgadóttir, Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson, Starkaður Barkarson and Jón Guðnason. 2018. Risamálheild: A Very Large Icelandic Text Corpus.
[Ulloa Saceda et al. 2012] Marta Ulloa Saceda; Lleó, Conxita & García Sánchez, Izarbe (2012): Corpora of spoken Spanish by simultaneous and successive German-Spanish bilingual and Spanish monolingual children.
[Vázquez Rozas and Barcala 2020] Victoria Vázquez Rozas and Mario Barcala. 2020. Computational tools and spoken corpus design: An ongoing dialogue. Caplletra 69 (2): 221–240.
[Verdonik 2018] Darinka Verdonik. Corpus and database GOS Videolectures.
[Verdonik and Zwitter-Vitez. 2012] Darinka Verdonik and Ana Zwitter-Vitez. 2012. Slovenski govorni korpus Gos.