Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 10:58:31 -0500
From: Natalie Maynor maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]RA.MSSTATE.EDU
Subject: Bounced Mail
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Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 11:00:09 -0400
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Subject: ADS-L: error report from LSI.SEL.SONY.COM
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Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 07:54:33 -0700
From: lexo[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]lsi.sel.sony.com (Lex Olorenshaw)
Message-Id: 199607291454.HAA02327[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]daisy.lsi
Subject: Re: recordings of American English
Cc: kbarry[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]softkey.com
You may want to look into the TIMIT recordings, which were done mainly
for the purposes of speech recognition research & development. See
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ldc/readme_files/timit.readme.html
where it notes that the recordings contain "dialect sentences."
"The dialect sentences...were meant to expose the dialectal variants of the
speakers and were read by all 630 speakers."
Another related web site is that of the Linguistic Data Consortium:
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ldc/home.html
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Lex Olorenshaw
E-mail: lexo[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]lsi.sel.sony.com
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Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 10:13:49 -0400
From: Allan Metcalf AAllan[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM
Subject: recordings of American English
The following request has me stumped. I know many researchers have made
recordings of American regional English, and phonograph records have been
made in the past, and projects are under way now - but does anyone make
available the kind of thing he wants? My one suggestion was to check with
DARE for their recordings, made in the 1960s.
If you know a source, I think it would be useful to post it to ADS-L as
well as to Mr. Barry. - Allan Metcalf
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I'm a Producer with Sofkey International(see below), which is located
in Cambridge, MA. I am currently working on a CD-ROM product which
will be a "talking dictionary" and also the CD will have a component
entitled "English Language". The CD-ROM is aimed for the home and
education markets.
My goal is to create a section that demonstrates American regional
accents. I am trying to locate a source for either high quality
recordings(audio/video) of examples of American regional accents.
Does your society or could you refer me to a source that may be
interested in participating in this type of project?
Thank You for any assistance you can provide.
Kevin Barry
KBARRY[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]SOFTKEY.COM
617.374.6266
SoftKey International Inc. develops, publishes and markets more than
500 consumer software titles in the education, productivity, reference
and lifestyle categories, targeted at home and school users.
According to the 1995 PC Data Annual Report, SoftKey is the number one
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