Spoken corpora

Spoken corpora are corpora that consist of spoken data or material based on spoken data.

Corpus Gesproken Nederlands

(Spoken Dutch Corpus) Almost 9 million words of contemporary spoken Dutch from native speakers in Flanders and the Netherlands.

The speech recordings are aligned with several transcriptions (e.g. orthographic, phonetic) and annotations (syntax, POS-tags). Metadata, lexica, frequency lists and the tool Corex which can be used to explore the data are included.

• 900 hours of spoken Dutch
• 1998 - 2004
• tagged, lemmatized, annotated (orthographic/phonetic)
• corpus exploration software (Corex)
• version 2.0.3.
• Project website
• Download page
• Online search with OpenSonar. If you go to Extended Mode you can select to exclusively search in the Corpus Spoken Dutch. (See Corpus querying for more information on OpenSonar.)

JASMIN-spraakcorpus

A corpus of contemporary Dutch (Dutch/Flemish) as spoken by children of different age groups, elderly people and non-natives with different mother tongues, and human-machine interaction

• 115 hours of spoken Dutch
• speech of children, elderly people and non-natives, and human-machine interaction
• verbatim transcription, a transcription of the human-machine interaction (HMI) phenomena, POS tagging of the words, and an automatic phonetic transcription
• version 1.0 (2008)
• Recording Speech of Children, Non-Natives and Elderly People for HLT Applications: the JASMIN-CGN Corpus (LREC Proceedings 2008)
• Download page