Some of you may be interested in this database too. It is freely
downloadable, or can be requested as a DVD.
The Chains corpus is a novel speech corpus collected with the primary
aim of facilitating research in speaker identification. The corpus
features approximately 36 speakers recorded under a variety of
speaking conditions, allowing comparison of the same speaker across
different well-defined speech styles. Speakers read a variety of
texts alone, in synchrony with a dialect-matched co-speaker, in
imitation of a dialect-matched co-speaker, in a whisper, and at a
fast rate. There is also an unscripted spontaneous retelling of a
read fable. The bulk of the speakers were speakers of Eastern Hiberno-
English. The corpus is being made freely available for research
purposes.
Full details at http://chains.ucd.ie/corpus.php
Best regards
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UCD, Dublin 4
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