Bittorrent TV shows

• Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, DRM free, full quality
• CBC to BitTorrent Canada's Next Great Prime Minister

Possible Audio Sources

(Here is a list of possible sources of Spoken Audio files that might be used for the creation of GPL Acoustic Models)

• Audio Source list:
  • ATCOSIM Air Traffic Control Simulation Speech Corpus (non-native english speakers)
  • Eurom1-EN
  • Aix-MARSEC Project: An Evolutive Database of Spoken British English
    • paper
    • order GPL Audio files

• Gutenburg audio project
• Wikipedia Spoken Articles
• librivox
• Creative Commons Audio
• Free Books - not sure about licensing ...
• CMU:
  • CMU Audio Database :
    • Microphone array database
    • Census (AN4) database
    • CMU_SIN Speech in Noise Database
    • PDA database
    • Resource Management (RM1) database (no wav - Sphinx mfc only)
• Festvox:
  • Festvox databases
    • CMU ARCTIC (no restrictions)
    • CMU_FAF (Facts and Fables) database
    • CMU_SIN database Speech in Noise
    • CMU Chaplain (for research only)
  • Diphone Databases
    • CMU US KAL diphone
    • CSTR UK RAB diphone
  • ldom Databases (Limited Domain)
    • time ldom (cmu_time_awb_ldom)
    • weather ldom (cmu_weather_awb_ldom)
    • Communicator ldom (cmu_com_kal_ldom)
• ISIP Switchboard
  • old links:
    • ISIP Abridged Switchboard Audio Database
    • full Switchboard Audio Database
  • New link to ISIP Switchboard
• American Rhetoric
• MICASE
• TalkBank TalkBank Audio Files (GNU license)
  • Switchboard database
  • Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English
• Hansard Canada (Audio feeds on day of debate)
  • House of Commons
  • Senate
• MICASE Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English
• AUE - alt-usage-english
• Voxeo Telephony Audio Files
• Internet Archive's audio books
• W3_Corpora
• SCOTS - Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech
• NLTK - contains a sample of the TIMIT corpus

• OYEZ US Supreme Court Media (mp3)
• Speech separation challenge
• The ICSI Meeting Corpus - Berkeley
• open speech repository
• US presidential debates

• Collaborative subtitling of videos
  • dotSUB collaborative subtitling of videos.
  • opencaptions - caption online video

• Child Speech
  • CHILDES - child language component of the TalkBank? system (GPL)

Links

• Bookmarks for Corpus-based Linguists
• Corpora and other Language and Speech Data under DICE
• David Lee's Bookmarks for Corpus based Linguistics
• W3-Corpora List
• Spoken Word Project - spoken Word archives
• isca-student - International speech communication association

== Off the wall audio sources ... ===

• reCAPTCHA - use a similar approach, but get users to transcribe speech audio as the Captcha mechanism - they were talking about usng this approach to transcribe radio programs

Other Possible sources, but with licensing issues:

• Buckeye Corpus
• CSLU Speech Synthesis Research Group;
  • OGIresLPC 2.1.0 voices (voice data not released yet - only for research/personal use ...)
• CMU
  • Let's Go Speech Dialog Data - (license for research only)
• Festvox
  • CSTR US KED Timit (for research, educational and individual use only)
  • Literal Systems - MP3/CC No derivative works
  • loudlit - MP3/CC No derivative works

Articles

• Brought Turner's Communications Technology Blog
  • using Blogs for speech corpora
  • Large Speech Corpora - Dan Bricklin's Insights
• Extreme Speech™ Recognition System

Corpora for Non-Commercial use

• IViE (non-commercial purposes)
• The Speech Accent Archive (Creative Commons - non-commercial)
• AMI Meeting Corpus - CC Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike 2.5 Licence
• EUSTACE - non-commercial use
• MOCHATIMIT non-commercial use
• c-span - CC non-commercial use; includes all congressional hearings and press briefings, federal agency hearings, and presidential events at the White House.

• Podiobooks.com - Creative Commons Non-Commercial, No-Derivative, Attribution required license.

(Also see Ticket #22)