ELRA - ELRA-U-S 0188 : IViE Corpus

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IViE Corpus

The IViE corpus contains speech data and intonation transcriptions from nine urban dialects of British English in five speaking styles.

- Locations: London (speakers of West Indian descent), Cambridge, Cardiff (bilingual Welsh-English speakers), Leeds, Bradford (bilingual Punjabi-English speakers), Liverpool, Newcastle, Belfast, Dublin.
- Recording environment: urban secondary schools.
- Speakers: 16 years old, twelve speakers from each variety (six male, six female).
- Task: Conversations, Goal directed interactions, Story telling from memory, A read passage of speech, Phonetically controlled sentences.

The complete set of IViE speech data contains 36 hours. A prosodically labelled sub-corpus of 4 hours has also been produced.

It was compiled within the framework of the IViE project to investigate cross-varietal and stylistic variation in English intonation.

IViE stands for 'Intonational Variation in English'.

Production

Creation date : 2001

Applications

	Applications possible : Discourse analysis#Speech recognition
application Area : Research

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speech corpus
Language(s) : English (United Kingdom)
Duration : 36 h
Source Channel : Microphone
Transcription Entries : Orthographic
Annotation Coverage : Partial
Annotation level : Prosodic