Download page for packages of files from the IViE corpus

Download Page for the IViE corpus

ESRC Grant R000237145 'Intonation in the British Isles'

Download Page Copyright©2001 E. Grabe and A. Slater, Phonetics Laboratory, University of Oxford.

Please quote the IViE corpus as follows:
Grabe, E., Post, B. and Nolan, F. (2001). The IViE Corpus. Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge. http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/IViE.

This page offers downloadable packages (.tar.gz format) of speech data (.wav format) from nine varieties of English in five different speaking styles.
The data are available free of charge, but we ask you to fill in a registration form before downloading. Also, please note our disclaimer.
The data may be used for all academic research and teaching purposes and they may be used as a basis for for M.Phil or PhD dissertations.

Downloadable are

approximately 36 hours of speech data.
Comparable sets of data recorded in Belfast, Bradford (bilingual Punjabi/English speakers), Cambridge, Cardiff (bilingual Welsh-English speakers), Dublin, Liverpool, Leeds, London, and Newcastle.

The data from each variety have been subdivided into separate packages, one for each speaking style :

I. Directly comparable read speech data

You can download packages of read sentences and packages of read texts. Sentences: declaratives, WH-questions, questions without morphosyntactic markers, modal questions, coordination structures. Text: the fairy tale Cinderella. To see the stimuli, click here.

II. Semi-spontaneous speech data

You can download packages containing retold versions of the read texts, produced by the same speakers.

III. Interactive speech

Here, you'll find Map task packages and packages containing free conversations. You can compare these data with read speech data produced by the same speaker. For coding of files by speaker, download our help booklet . The Map Task was designed for the purposes of our project. The conversations were produced by single-sex pairs of adolescents talking about smoking. Click here to see the map.

For information about the IViE project and the corpus, please have a look at the IViE Homepage.
To see the documentation page for the downloadable data, please click here.
To download a help booklet in .doc format that contains all relevant information about the corpus, click here.

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