LDC Catalog

CALLFRIEND Spanish-Non-Caribbean Dialect


Item Name:	CALLFRIEND Spanish-Non-Caribbean Dialect
Authors:	Alexandra Canavan and George Zipperlen
LDC Catalog No.:	LDC96S58
ISBN:	1-58563-073-X
Data Type:	speech
Sample Rate:	8000 Hz
Sampling Format:	2-channel ulaw
Data Source(s):	telephone conversations
Project(s):	LID
Application(s):	language identification
Language(s):	Spanish
Distribution:	1 DVD
Member fee:	$0 for 1996, 1997 members
Non-member Fee:	US$1000.00
Reduced-License Fee:	US$500.00
Extra-Copy Fee:	US$200.00
Non-member License:	yes
Online documentation:	yes
Licensing Instructions:	Subscription Members, Standard Members, Non-Members
Citation:	Alexandra Canavan and George Zipperlen 1996 CALLFRIEND Spanish-Non-Caribbean Dialect Linguistic Data Consortium, Philadelphia

Introduction The CALLFRIEND project supports the development of language identification technology. Data The corpus consists of 60 unscripted telephone conversations, lasting between 5-30 minutes. The corpus also includes documentation describing speaker information (sex, age, education, callee telephone number) and call information (channel quality, number of speakers). For each conversation, both the caller and callee are native speakers of Spanish from non-Caribbean countries. All calls are domestic and were placed inside the continental United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, or the Dominican Republic. Conversations were labeled as either "Caribbean" or "non-Caribbean" based on particular attributes in the speech of the participants. Callers in the "Caribbean" and "non-Caribbean" collections of CALLFRIEND Spanish were identified primarily on the basis of consonant quality patterns, specifically, word-final "s." Updates There are no updates at this time. Content Copyright Portions © 1996 Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

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