Corpora of spoken language contain transcriptions of spontaneous or planned speech, such as broadcast news or elicited narratives and dialogues.
They are often aligned with the accompanying recordings. They are an invaluable resource for various kinds of linguistic research, such as phonology, conversational analysis, and dialectology. Such corpora are carefully sampled and rich in sociodemographic metadata.
There are spoken corpora in the CLARIN infrastructure, of which contain both the transcriptions of spoken or spontaneous speech and the associated recordings, and 14 only the transcriptions. In the vast majority of cases, the corpora can be directly downloaded from the national repositories or queried through easy-to-use online search environments. They are also richly tagged, many with markup specific to speech corpora, such as phonemic and prosodic annotation.
Below, we first provide overviews of the corpora that are already part of the CLARIN infrastructure and then list those that have not yet been integrated. For comments, changes to the existing content or inclusion of new corpora, send us an resource-families [at] clarin.
For the relevant publication, see Halabi Audioatlas Siebenbuergisch-Saechsischer Dialekte. This corpus is built from parliamentary proceedings available in the Croatian part of the ParlaMint corpus and the parliamentary recordings available from the Croatian Parliament's YouTube channel.
