LDC Online

LDC Online contains an indexed collection of Arabic, Chinese and English newswire text, millions of words of English telephone speech from the Switchboard and Fisher collections and the American English Spoken Lexicon, as well as the full text of the Brown corpus. With LDC Online, users can search textual data and play audio extracts for transcribed utterances on standard web browsers. LDC Online is a free service for LDC current year members.

To use LDC Online, you need an individual user account. If you don't have an account yet, you can sign up for a guest account. Once your account is approved by your organization's administrator, you will be granted full member access to LDC Online. Even if your organization is not an LDC member, you can get a guest account which provides access to a subset of data and functions.