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:
  • ​Gutenburg audio project
  • ​Wikipedia Spoken Articles
  • CMU Databases:
    • ​CMU ARCTIC 4 single speaker phonetically balanced databases of around 1200 utterances (around 40K phonemes) each, with waveform plus EGG, designed for use in speech synthesis.
    • ​CMU Chaplain conversational speech, 4.15 hours, close-talking microphone, 16bit, 16KHz. Hand transcribed.
    • ​CMU Microphone Array Database
    • ​ISIP Switchboard Audio Database
  • ​American Rhetoric
  • Hansard Canada
    • ​House of Commons
    • ​Senate
  • ​MICASE Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English

• Links
  • ​Bookmarks for Corpus-based Linguists

(Also see Ticket #22)