SOCRATES Thematic Network in Phonetics and Speech Communication

Inventory of Internet Resources

Acoustic, Phonetic and Linguistic Data

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30	Online Bibliography: Phonetics / Speech Technology

Searchable Bibiliography for Phonetics and Speech-Technology with about 10.000 entries

URL: http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/~ifb/bib_engl.html

Access by: Remote execution.

For further information contact
Name:	Fred Englert
Email:	englert@ipx01.phonetik.uni-frankfurt.de
Fax:	+49.69.798.23774

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38	Speechlab / Sprachlabor

Speechlab is a multimedia tutorial on phonetics, containing chapters on articulation, acoustics, speech analysis, and a multimedial reference of American and German speech sounds (video, audio, articulatory and acoustic description). Also included are a small speech analysis tool and a bibliographic database containing over 4000 articles. Sprachlabor is the German Version, without the American sound lexicon.

URL: http://www.media-enterprise.de

Language: English or German.

Access by: WWW download.

For further information contact
Name:	Ingolf Franke
Email:	office@media-enterprise.de
Fax:	+49 651 8 100 9 31

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46	British National Corpus of English

The British National Corpus is a very large (over 100 million words) corpus of modern English, both written and spoken.

URL: http://info.ox.ac.uk/bnc/

Access by: CD-ROM.

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47	MARSEC: Machine Readable Spoken English Corpus

MARSEC is a CD-ROM of the recordings transcribed in the Spoken English Corpus (SEC). Annotations at word, gramnmatical and prosodic levels are available.

URL: http://midwich.reading.ac.uk/research/speechlab/marsec/marsec.html

Access by: FTP. CD-ROM.

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53	Oxford Acoustic Phonetic Database

Available on compact disc, from J. Pickering and B. Rosner. It contains data on vowel-consonant and consonant-vowel combinations in both stressed and unstressed locations. The language covered include French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, British English, Spanish and English.

URL: http://svr-www.eng.cam.ac.uk/comp.speech/Section1/Data/oxford.html

Access by:

For further information contact
Name:	Prof. Burt Rosner
Email:	burton.rosner@wolfson.ox.ac.uk

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65	The Sounds of the World's Languages

15 DSDD disks, requiring about 35 meg of disk space when expanded Sounds of the World's Languages (SOWL) is a Hypercard tool and database developed at the UCLA Phonetics Laboratory to illustrate and teach about the range of sounds used in human languages with material on more than 80 languages.

URL: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/linguistics/faciliti/software.htm

Access by: 15 DSDD disks.

For further information contact
Name:	Linguistics Department, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1543
Email:	phonetic@humnet.ucla.edu

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67	UPSID and PHONEME

The UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database of (currently) 451 languages, with programs to manipulate and modify it. Specify size DOS size disk required.

URL: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/linguistics/faciliti/software.htm

Access by: 7 DSHD disks.

For further information contact
Name:	Linguistics Department, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095 Linguistics Department, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 9009
Email:	phonetic@humnet.ucla.edu

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72	European Language Resources Association

ELRA is a non-profit association who desseminates speech & language resources

URL: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html

Access by: CD-ROMs.

For further information contact
Name:	Khalid Choukri
Email:	elra@calvanet.calvacom.fr
Fax:	+33 1 45 86 44 88

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77	Automatische Spracherkennung - Grundlagen, statistische Modelle und effiziente Algorithmenn

Lecture notes for a course on speech understand�ng based on the book "Automatische Spracherkennung - Grundlagen, statistische Modelle und effiziente Algorithmen" by Ernst G�nter Schukat-Talamazzini.

URL: http://www5.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/HTML/English/Lectures/sprachverst/sprachverst.html

Language: .

Access by: FTP.

For further information contact
Name:	J�rgen Haas, Erlangen University
Email:	haas@faui57d.informatik.uni-erlangen.de

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82	Relator project speech corpora index

This is an index page describing a large number of speech databases through Europe.

URL: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/Relator/countries.html

Access by:

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83	EUR-ACCOR acoustic and articulatory database

ACCOR is a unique acoustic and articulatory database recorded as part of the ESPRIT- ACCOR project investigating cross-language acoustic-articulatory correlations in coarticulatory processes. European Languages include: Catalan, English, French, German, Irish Gaelic, Italian and Swedish.

URL: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/Relator/multiling/euraccor.html

Access by:

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88	Audio files associated with articles in the Speech Communication Journal

Audio files associated with articles published in the journal "Speech Communication"

URL: http://www.elsevier.nl:80/cas/tree/store/specom/free/noncas/audio/menu.sht

Access by: FTP.

For further information contact
Name:	Christian BENOIT
Email:	benoit@icp.grenet.fr
Fax:	+33 4 76 82 43 36

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97	Linguistic Data Consortium Speech Corpora

The Linguistic Data Consortium is an open consortium of universities, companies and government research laboratories. It creates, collects and distributes speech and text databases, lexicons, and other resources for research and development purposes. The LDC is currently collecting thousands of recorded telephone conversations among speakers of more than ten different major languages of the world. Calls are initiated from the United States or Canada and made to all parts of the globe.

URL: http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/

Access by: Remote execution.

For further information contact
Email:	ldc@ldc.upenn.edu
Fax:	+1 215 573-2175

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