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)
• Mushroom hunting corpus of formal and informal Malay sentences (Jan 2025)

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.