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Leeds Multi-Session Corpus of Standard Southern British English

Citation

Plug, Leendert (2024) Leeds Multi-Session Corpus of Standard Southern British English. University of Leeds. [Dataset] https://doi.org/10.5518/1547

Dataset description

The Leeds Multi-Session Corpus of Standard Southern British English is a publicly available, 16-speaker dataset of Southern Standard British English speech, created at the University of Leeds between 2022 and 2024. The speakers are all females in the age range 18-35. The corpus was designed to allow for substantive analysis of intra-speaker variation. To this end, participants performed a series of commonly employed speech production and control tasks repeatedly, in 6 to 8 near-identical sessions. Consecutive sessions were separated by at least 2 weeks. Audio recordings were segmented by task to allow for the compilation of data subsets suitable for a range of phonetic analyses. The speech production tasks include a word production task, a passage reading task, and a sentence reading task in which participants produced sentences in multiple tempo and style conditions. The control tasks included a finger tapping task and a nonsense syllable repetition task. The dataset should be of interest to a range of speech researchers including those working in forensic phonetic practice.

Additional information: This corpus is held in the Restricted Access Data Repository, RADAR. To request access, please click the link under ‘Related resources’. You will be prompted to complete a request form including your proposed use of the dataset. You will then receive an initial response to your request within 10 working days.
Keywords: Speech, Southern Standard British English, Audio, Word productions, Sentence productions, Reading passage, Clear speech adjustments, Speech tempo adjustments, Intra-speaker variation, Linguistics, Phonetics, Psychology
Subjects: Q000 - Linguistics, classics & related subjects > Q100 - Linguistics
Q000 - Linguistics, classics & related subjects > Q100 - Linguistics > Q130 - Phonetics & phonology > Q131 - Phonetics
C000 - Biological sciences > C800 - Psychology
Divisions: Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures > School of Languages, Cultures and Societies
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https://radar.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/63/Dataset
Date deposited: 21 Nov 2024 09:30
URI: https://archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/id/eprint/1345

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