Mining a Year of Speech

Awardees: Mark Liberman, University of Pennsylvania, NSF; John Coleman, University of Oxford, JISC.

 Additional Key Participants:  The British Library.

 Description: This project focuses on large scale data analysis of audio -- specifically the spoken word.  This project will create tools to enable rapid and flexible access to over 9,000 hours of spoken audio files, containing a wide variety of speech, drawn from some of the leading British and American spoken word corpora, allowing for new kinds of linguistic analysis.

 

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