Natural Sounds Stimulus Set

The sound set includes 165 natural sounds, each 2-seconds in duration. The sounds were intended to include many of the sounds people commonly hear in their daily life.

Authors:  Sam Norman-Haignere,  Nancy G. Kanwisher,  Josh H. McDermott
Updated:  2015-11-24
Source:  http://mcdermottlab.mit.edu/svnh/Natural-Sound/Stimuli.html
Keywords:  speech,  music,  stimuli,  frequency,  German,  French,  Italian,  Russian,  Hindi,  Chinese

Da Amazing Voice Inflection Device

DAVID (Da Amazing Voice Inflection Device) is a free, real-time voice transformation tool able to “colour” any voice recording with an emotion that wasn’t intended by its speaker.

Authors:  Marco Liuni,  Petter Johansson,  Lars Hall,  Rodrigo Segnini,  Katsumi Watanabe,  Daniel Richardson
Updated:  2015-09-21
Source:  http://cream.ircam.fr/?p=44
Keywords:  language,  emotion,  psychology,  neuroscience,  French,  English,  Swedish,  Japanese

CLEARPOND: Cross-Linguistic Easy-Access Resource for Phonological and Orthographic Neighborhood Densitites

CLEARPOND provides a user-friendly, web-based interface for obtaining Dutch, English, French, German and Spanish phonological and orthographic neighborhood densities (or, PONDs).

Authors:  Viorica Marian,  James Bartolotti,  Sarah Chabal,  Anthony Shook
Updated:  2012-12-24
Source:  https://clearpond.northwestern.edu/index.html
Keywords:  linguistics,  phonetics,  neighborhood-density,  database,  lexicon,  Dutch,  English,  French,  German,  Spanish

Nijmegen Corpus of Casual French

The Nijmegen Corpus of Casual French contains 35 hours of high-quality recordings featuring 46 French speakers conversing among friends. The speech has been orthographically annotated by professional transcribers.

Authors:  Mirjam Ernestus,  Francisco Torreira,  Martine Adda-Decker
Updated:  2010-12-24
Source:  https://www.ru.nl/cls/publications/corpora/
Keywords:  language,  communication,  casual speech,  French