The Model Talker System

The ModelTalker System converts plain English text to speech. It uses recorded speech (either from a prospective SGD user or from a voice donor chosen by or for the SGD user) to create a unique synthetic voice.

Authors:  H. Timothy Bunnell,  Jason Lilley,  Matthew Buzzell,  Maxwell Schmid,  Bill Moyers,  Derek Freer
Updated:  2020-06-25
Source:  https://www.modeltalker.org/
Keywords:  language,  communication,  speech,  phonology,  morphology,  English

Phoible

A database of phonological inventories of a wide variety of languages

Authors:  Steven Moran,  Daniel McCloy
Updated:  2019-12-24
Source:  https://phoible.org/
Keywords:  linguistics,  language,  phonology,  phonemes,  phoneme inventory,  database,  language structure

subs2vec

Python 3.7 resources to evaluate bigram and trigram frequencies in corpora.

Authors:  Jeroen van Paridon,  Bill Thompson
Updated:  2019-12-24
Source:  https://github.com/jvparidon/subs2vec
Keywords:  language,  bigram,  trigram,  lexical norms,  psycholinguistics,  Afrikaans,  Arabic,  Bulgarian,  Bengali,  Breton,  Bosnian,  Catalan,  Czech,  Danish,  German,  Greek,  English,  Esperanto,  Spanish,  Estonian,  Basque,  Farsi,  Finnish,  French,  Galician,  Hebrew,  Hindi,  Croatian,  Hungarian,  Armenian,  Indonesian,  Icelandic,  Italian,  Georgian,  Kazakh,  Korean,  Lithuanian,  Latvian,  Macedonian,  Malayalam,  Malay,  Dutch,  Norwegian,  Polish,  Portuguese,  Romanian,  Russian,  Sinhala,  Slovak,  Slovenian,  Albanian,  Serbian,  Swedish,  Tamil,  Telugu,  Tagalog,  Turkish,  Ukranian,  Urdu,  Vietnamese

Normative Data on Dutch Idiomatic Expressions

Normative data of 374 Dutch idiomatic expressions by 390 native speakers.

Authors:  Ferdy Hubers,  Catia Cucchiarini,  Helmer Strik,  Ton Dijkstra
Updated:  2019-05-14
Source:  https://www.ru.nl/cls/publications/corpora/
Keywords:  language,  speech,  English,  Dutch

Arizona Child Acoustic Database

The Arizona Child Acoustic Database is a longitudinal collection of audio samples from children between the ages of 2-7 years.

Authors:  Kate Bunton and Brad Story
Updated:  2018-06-20
Source:  https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/316065
Keywords:  language,  speech-development,  acoustics,  linguistics,  English

BilingBank

BilingBank is a component of TalkBank dedicated to providing corpora for the study of multilingualism.

Authors:  Brian MacWhinney
Updated:  2018-05-04
Source:  https://biling.talkbank.org/
Keywords:  bilingual,  multilingualism,  language,  communication,  English

Nijmegen Corpus of Spanish English

Around 38 hours of high-quality recordings featuring 34 Spanish speakers from Madrid talking in English to two Dutch confederates, in an informal and in a formal setting.

Authors:  Mirjam Ernestus,  Huib Kouwenhoven
Updated:  2018-04-06
Source:  https://mirjamernestus.nl/Ernestus/NCSE/index.php
Keywords:  language,  communication,  speech,  English

Combinatorial Expressive Speech Engine

C.L.E.E.S.E. (Combinatorial Expressive Speech Engine) is a tool designed to generate an infinite number of natural-sounding, expressive variations around an original speech recording.

Authors:  Juan José Burred,  Emmanuel Ponsot
Updated:  2018-03-24
Source:  http://cream.ircam.fr/?p=521
Keywords:  language,  speech,  pitch,  French,  English,  Japanese

ANGUS

ANGUS is a real-time voice transformation tool able to simulate cues of arousal/roughness on arbitrary voice signals with a high degree of realism.

Authors:  Marco Liuni,  Luc Ardaillon
Updated:  2018-03-07
Source:  http://cream.ircam.fr/?p=787
Keywords:  language,  voice,  vocal-tract,  English

Tool for the Automatic Analysis of Lexical Sophistication

TAALES is a tool that measures over 400 classic and new indices of lexical sophistication, and includes indices related to a wide range of sub-constructs.

Authors:  Kristopher Kyle,  Scott Crossley,  Cynthia Berger
Updated:  2018-02-08
Source:  https://www.linguisticanalysistools.org/taales.html
Keywords:  language,  lexicon,  communication,  English