CALLFRIEND American English-Non-Southern Dialect Second Edition
| Item Name: | CALLFRIEND American English-Non-Southern Dialect Second Edition |
| Author(s): | Alexandra Canavan, George Zipperlen, John Bartlett |
| LDC Catalog No.: | LDC2019S21 |
| ISBN: | 1-58563-907-9 |
| ISLRN: | 275-001-054-055-7 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.35111/qasz-dp17 |
| Release Date: | November 15, 2019 |
| Member Year(s): | 2019 |
| DCMI Type(s): | Sound |
| Sample Type: | ulaw |
| Sample Rate: | 8000 |
| Data Source(s): | telephone conversations |
| Project(s): | EARS, GALE, LID |
| Application(s): | language identification |
| Language(s): | English |
| Language ID(s): | eng |
| License(s): |
LDC User Agreement for Non-Members |
| Online Documentation: | LDC2019S21 Documents |
| Licensing Instructions: | Subscription & Standard Members, and Non-Members |
| Citation: | Canavan, Alexandra, George Zipperlen, and John Bartlett. CALLFRIEND American English-Non-Southern Dialect Second Edition LDC2019S21. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 2019. |
| Related Works: | View |
Introduction
CALLFRIEND American English-Non-Southern Dialect Second Edition was developed by the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) and consists of approximately 26 hours of unscripted telephone conversations between native speakers of non-Southern dialects of American English. This second edition updates the audio files to wav format, simplifies the directory structure and adds documentation and metadata. The first edition is available as CALLFRIEND American English-Non-Southern Dialect (LDC96S46).
The CALLFRIEND series is a collection of telephone conversations in several languages conducted by LDC in support of language identification technology development. Languages covered in the collection include American English, Canadian French, Egyptian Arabic, Farsi, German, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, Tamil and Vietnamese.
Data
All data was collected before July 1997. Participants could speak with a person of their choice on any topic; most called family members and friends. All calls originated in North America. The recorded conversations last up to 30 minutes.
The data was recorded as 8kHz u-law SPH encoded stereo files, with one end of the phone call on each channel. In this release, files were converted to WAV format, and information from the original SPH headers is described in the documentation. SPH files are not included in this second edition.
The audio files were originally split into train, dev and test folders of 20 recordings each, but they are combined in this release.
Completed calls passed through a human auditing process to verify that the target language was spoken by the participants, to check the quality of the recordings, and to record information about dialect, noise and distortion.
Samples
Please view this audio sample.
Updates
None at this time.