The prosodically transcribed IViE corpus on-line

Supported by ESRC grant R000237145

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On-line version Copyright©2002 E. Grabe and A. Slater. Oxford University Phonetics Laboratory.

Conditions of use:

The IViE corpus, the IViE prosodic transcriptions and the associated documentation are copyright information. The speech data, the transcriptions and the documentation cannot be copied or distributed in any format unless this paragraph is included. The speech data and the associated transcriptions are available to any interested user, but only for non-commercial use. The ESRC and the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge make no warranty whatsoever in relation to the materials including as to accuracy, quality or fitness for any particular purpose, and accept no liability in relation to the use of the materials or anything associated with such use.

The IViE data and the associated prosodic transcriptions are available free of charge and 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.

• speech data from seven dialects of English spoken in the British Isles in five speaking styles
  
  
• one male and one female speaker per dialect
  
  
• downloadable prosodic transcriptions made with the IViE system for prosodic labelling
  
  
• the transcriptions are given in text files which can be time-aligned with the associated speech file
  
  
• the speech data and the time-aligned transcriptions can be displayed in xwaves, wavesurfer or PRAAT
  
  
• xwaves users can download the following labelling script
  
  
• these scripts need to be adapted to your workstation (edit the scripts with a text editor and look for the pointers given in the script).
  
  
• If you wish to compare the labelled data with unlabelled data in the complete corpus, click here for speaker coding

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- Last modified on 8/06/2002 -