DIT’s Dynamic Speech Corpus

Dermot Campbell, Dublin Institute of Technology
Ciaran McDonnell, Dublin Institute of Technology
Marty Meinardi, Dublin Institute of Technology
Charles Pritchard, Dublin Institute of Technology
Bunny Richardson, Dublin Institute of Technology
Yi Wang, Dublin Institute of Technology

Document Type Article

Speak Out!, September 2009, Issue 41, pp.8-11.

Abstract

The Dublin Institute of Technology’s FLUENT Dynamic Speech Corpus is aimed at learners, teachers, authors and researchers. When the prototype is complete (target: July 2009) it will afford access to a unique audio resource based on dialogues. Users will be able to find samples of native-to-native speech on a chosen topic, listen to phonetically interesting sections and explore the dynamic environment which gave rise to the spoken features studied. At all stages the user will be able to slow down sequences for heightened intelligibility.