Harvesting Speech Datasets for Linguistic Research on the Web

Awardees: Mats Rooth, CornellUniversity, NSF; Michael Wagner, McGillUniversity, SSHRC.

Description: This project will harvest audio and transcribed data from podcasts, news broadcasts, public and educational lectures and other sources to create a massive corpus of speech. Tools will then be developed to analyze the different uses of prosody (rhythm, stress and intonation) within spoken communication.

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Article in the Cornell Cronicle

Prosody Datasets Website: Examples