The Growing Collection. This dataverse is a repository for collections of audio & video recordings and transcriptions that have been recorded and released according to the terms of the Growing Collection. Each speaker has been asked whether they would prefer their audio to be identifiable or anonymous. To gain access to audio you must agree to the terms of the Growing Collection

Audio Collections (Words)
• Spring-Village Corpus of minimal pairs in Singapore Mandarin Chinese (Mar 2022)
• Pitch-Peach Corpus of minimal pairs and homophones in Singapore English (under construction)
• TOWRE Skilled Adult Readers of Singapore English (under construction)
• Early Word Lists (under construction)
• /i/ /a/ /u/ SESAME Picture Card Corpus - Adults speaking English, Mandarin, Malay and Tamil (coming soon)
• Zoo-Lǎohǔ Word Set Cross linguistic lexical priming word set for animacy judgements (English and Mandarin Chinese)

Audio Collections (Sentences/Narrations/Conversations)
• Laksa Corpus (Archived Jan 2020)
• Leaf & Stone Corpus (Archived Jan 2020)
• Green Grass Park Picture Description Corpus in Singapore Mandarin (Feb 2022)
• SESAME Topic Prompts (under construction)

Video Collections
• Dog-Dark Corpus of hand-shapes in SgSL Corpus (Coming Soon)
• SESAME Topic Prompts SgSL Corpus (Under Development)
• "What a Scary Storm!" SgSL Corpus (Under Development)

Synthesized speech derived from natural speech tokens
• Boat-Vote continuum for categorical perception studies

MERLIon Challenge Collections
• MERLIon CCS Challenge 2023

Corpus Administration
• Growing Collection Release Form (Archived Jan 2020)
• Growing Collection Corpus metadata template (Coming soon)

Terms of use: To access recordings in these collections, users must agree to the following terms: Recordings of audio and video must be treated with respect, and should not be presented in any context which might cause harm or embarrassment to the speaker. For example recordings should not be associated with assessments of racial prejudice, evaluations of likely criminality, sexual orientation, religious affiliation, or any other sensitive material. Recordings should not be paired with distressing or unpleasant stimuli in another sensory domain (e.g., unpleasant pictures, unpleasant smells). No individual should be identified as ‘bad at’ any aspect of the task. Where Usernames have been given, Usernames must be presented alongside any vocal samples used as illustrations of method or results. For example, named or listed in the credits of a documentary; named in a digital file published as supplementary material in a journal article; or listed in live demonstrations (e.g., Presentation at academic conferences, Public science lectures). Any use of files from the Growing Collection must be credited as specified in the Terms of Use for that dataset.

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Cross Linguistic Priming Word Lists(Nanyang Technological University)
Apr 18, 2024
A collection of word lists that can be used fro cross linguistic priming studies
MERLIon CCS Challenges(Nanyang Technological University)
Aug 11, 2023Talk Together Corpus of parent-child speech in Singapore
This dataverse contains specially selected datasets from the Talk Together Study which have been re-coded and adapted for use in MERLIon speech processing challenges. The inaugural challenge was run as part of INTERSPEECH 2023. MERLIon CCS Challenge 2023 (INTERSPEECH 2023) • MERL...
Talk Together Corpus of parent-child speech in Singapore(Nanyang Technological University)
Aug 11, 2023
Main Dataverse for the collection of files from the Talk Together Study
Spring Village Corpus of minimal pairs in Mandarin Chinese(Nanyang Technological University)
Mar 29, 2022
This collection contains audio recordings released by participants under the terms of the Growing Collection. To access this audio, you must agree to the terms of use. This collection was initiated by Hannah Letitia Goh as part of her PhD research in the Brain, Language and Inter...
Green Grass Park Picture Description Corpus(Nanyang Technological University)
Feb 15, 2022
This collection contains audio recordings released by participants under the terms of the Growing Collection. To access this audio, you must agree to the terms of use. This collection was initiated by Pan Lei as part of her PhD research in the Brain, Language and Intersensory Per...
Leaf & Stone Corpus - Singapore(Nanyang Technological University)
Jan 13, 2020
This corpus of Singaporean English speech was recorded in 2016. Parents of children 0-6 years of age were asked to read an English language storybook as they would when interacting with their children. The goal was to elicit child-directed speech under different conditions, as cu...
Laksa Corpus(Nanyang Technological University)
Jan 13, 2020
This corpus of Singaporean English speech was recorded in the NTU Psychology testing labs in 2019. Speakers were asked to order a bowl of Laksa in three different contexts, as cued by different visual prompts. The goal was to elicit speech that varied along the diglossic cline fr...
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