SESAME Research Tools

SESAME: Speech Elicitation for Spectral Acoustics in a Multilingual Environment. The SESAME Research tools are a collection of Open Access materials designed to elicit different kinds of speech, including for fine-grained analysis of spectral acoustics. The collection includes Picture Cards designed to elicit single words for phonetic contrasts; Talk Prompts designed to elicit a short sample of speech about a familiar topic; Complex picture scenes; and a Wordless Storybook. The primary target languages are the dominant languages of Singapore: English, Mandarin Chinese, Bahasa Melayu (Malay) and Tamil. The Creative Commons License allows the materials to be freely shared with attribution, for any non-commercial purpose, and allows adaptation into other languages.

• What a Scary Storm! Wordless Picture Book
👉For eliciting naturalistic speech in any language during during storytelling

• Sesame Picture Cards
👉for eliciting peripheral vowels

• Sesame Talk Prompts
👉for eliciting 1 min of informal speech in different languages

• Green Grass Park - Picture Description
👉for eliciting phonetic targets in Mandarin Chinese, Malay, Tamil and other languages

• Spring-Village Picture Cards
👉for eliciting minimal pairs in Mandarin Chinese

The development of the SESAME Research Tools is supported by the following: Singapore's National Research Foundation, under the Science of Learning fund; Centre for Research and Development on Learning (CRADLE@NTU); Nanyang Technological University.

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Green Grass Park (Split Language Labels) - A SESAME Research Tool Jul 10, 2023 - Green Grass Park Styles, Suzy J; Fong, Seraphina; Pan, Lei; Woon, Fei Ting; Chua, YH Victoria, 2023, "Green Grass Park (Split Language Labels) - A SESAME Research Tool", https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/NF4T2Z, DR-NTU (Data), V1, UNF:6:WQq3Zz+/vGffGbIA0h/gAw== [fileUNF] In the domain of speech elicitation, it is well understood that participants speak differently when producing different kinds of speech. In particular, speakers tend to use more ‘standard’ pronunciations when reading individual words in isolation, as compared to reading words wit...
Spring-Village Picture Cards for alveolar/retroflex minimal pairs in Mandarin Chinese Mar 29, 2022 - Spring-Village Picture Cards Goh, Hannah L; Woon, Fei Ting; Styles, Suzy J, 2022, "Spring-Village Picture Cards for alveolar/retroflex minimal pairs in Mandarin Chinese", https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/PBUD6A, DR-NTU (Data), V1 Different varieties of Chinese spoken around the world are known to differ in the way they pronounce certain words. The Spring Village Picture Cards is a set of stimuli designed to depict words in Mandarin Chinese that differ only in a single phoneme (minimal pairs). 6 minimal pa...
Spring-Village Picture Cards(Nanyang Technological University) Mar 29, 2022 The Spring Village Picture Cards are a set of illustrated cards representing words Mandarin Chinese. The words make minimal pairs which are matched for tone, and contrast in one speech segment, as illustrated by the word pair 村 'village' and 春 'spring' (Hanyu Pinyin: cūn, chūn; I...
SESAME Topic Prompts Apr 7, 2021 Styles, Suzy J; binte Amran, Shaza; Ang, Xin Wen; Mohd Salleh, Nur Sakinah; Woon, Fei Ting; Yogarrajah, Eshwaaree C, 2021, "SESAME Topic Prompts", https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/07GFI2, DR-NTU (Data), V1 Topic prompts for eliciting speech in different languages. The cards were designed to around one minute of informal speech in the official languages of Singapore: English, Chinese, Malay, and Tamil. The topic prompts were first piloted in 2019, and rolled out for elicitation task...
SESAME Picture Cards Apr 7, 2021 Styles, Suzy J; Woon, Fei Ting; Mohd Salleh, Nur Sakinah; binte Amran, Shaza; Yogarrajah, Eshwaaree C, 2021, "SESAME Picture Cards", https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/BI71GY, DR-NTU (Data), V1 Picture Cards for eliciting speech in different languages. The pictures were designed to elicit the syllables /pi/ /pa/ and /pu/ in the word onset position in the official languages of Singapore: English, Chinese, Malay, and Tamil. The picture cards were first piloted in 2019, an...
Green Grass Park (Tamil) - A SESAME Research Tool Jul 28, 2020 - Green Grass Park Pan, Lei; Fong, Seraphina; Sundaray, Shamala; Yogarrajah, Eshwaaree; Styles, Suzy J, 2020, "Green Grass Park (Tamil) - A SESAME Research Tool", https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/T4XNLX, DR-NTU (Data), V1, UNF:6:LP+d/ejj1Ry48MAhBvZ7lQ== [fileUNF] In the domain of speech elicitation, it is well understood that participants speak differently when producing different kinds of speech. In particular, speakers tend to use more ‘standard’ pronunciations when reading individual words in isolation, as compared to reading words wit...
Green Grass Park (Malay) - A SESAME Research Tool Jul 28, 2020 - Green Grass Park Pan, Lei; Fong, Seraphina; Sundaray, Shamala; Salleh, Nur Sakinah; Binte Amran, Shaza; Styles, Suzy J, 2020, "Green Grass Park (Malay) - A SESAME Research Tool", https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/AYBX7A, DR-NTU (Data), V1, UNF:6:kGpQHr6Lp99N55sTptuOzw== [fileUNF] In the domain of speech elicitation, it is well understood that participants speak differently when producing different kinds of speech. In particular, speakers tend to use more ‘standard’ pronunciations when reading individual words in isolation, as compared to reading words wit...
Green Grass Park (Nanyang Technological University) Jul 28, 2020 In the domain of speech elicitation, speakers tend to use more ‘standard’ pronunciations when reading individual words in isolation, as compared to reading words within the context of a sentence, or talking freely off-the-cuff (Labov, 1966). When speakers have a complex task to a...
Green Grass Park (Mandarin Chinese) - A SESAME Research Tool Jul 28, 2020 - Green Grass Park Pan, Lei; Fong, Seraphina; Styles, Suzy J, 2020, "Green Grass Park (Mandarin Chinese) - A SESAME Research Tool", https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/S6Q4SP, DR-NTU (Data), V1, UNF:6:yo2rNom2IDIjZX1A8MA87A== [fileUNF] In the domain of speech elicitation, it is well understood that participants speak differently when producing different kinds of speech. In particular, speakers tend to use more ‘standard’ pronunciations when reading individual words in isolation, as compared to reading words wit...
Green Grass Park - Picture Description Jul 28, 2020 - Green Grass Park Pan, Lei; Fong, Seraphina; Styles, Suzy J, 2020, "Green Grass Park - Picture Description", https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/W3HFGJ, DR-NTU (Data), V1 In the domain of speech elicitation, it is well understood that participants speak differently when producing different kinds of speech. In particular, speakers tend to use more ‘standard’ pronunciations when reading individual words in isolation, as compared to reading words wit...

Green Grass Park (Split Language Labels) - A SESAME Research Tool

Jul 10, 2023 - Green Grass Park

Styles, Suzy J; Fong, Seraphina; Pan, Lei; Woon, Fei Ting; Chua, YH Victoria, 2023, "Green Grass Park (Split Language Labels) - A SESAME Research Tool", https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/NF4T2Z, DR-NTU (Data), V1, UNF:6:WQq3Zz+/vGffGbIA0h/gAw== [fileUNF]

In the domain of speech elicitation, it is well understood that participants speak differently when producing different kinds of speech. In particular, speakers tend to use more ‘standard’ pronunciations when reading individual words in isolation, as compared to reading words wit...

Spring-Village Picture Cards for alveolar/retroflex minimal pairs in Mandarin Chinese

Mar 29, 2022 - Spring-Village Picture Cards

Goh, Hannah L; Woon, Fei Ting; Styles, Suzy J, 2022, "Spring-Village Picture Cards for alveolar/retroflex minimal pairs in Mandarin Chinese", https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/PBUD6A, DR-NTU (Data), V1

Different varieties of Chinese spoken around the world are known to differ in the way they pronounce certain words. The Spring Village Picture Cards is a set of stimuli designed to depict words in Mandarin Chinese that differ only in a single phoneme (minimal pairs). 6 minimal pa...

Spring-Village Picture Cards(Nanyang Technological University)

Mar 29, 2022

The Spring Village Picture Cards are a set of illustrated cards representing words Mandarin Chinese. The words make minimal pairs which are matched for tone, and contrast in one speech segment, as illustrated by the word pair 村 'village' and 春 'spring' (Hanyu Pinyin: cūn, chūn; I...

SESAME Topic Prompts

Apr 7, 2021

Styles, Suzy J; binte Amran, Shaza; Ang, Xin Wen; Mohd Salleh, Nur Sakinah; Woon, Fei Ting; Yogarrajah, Eshwaaree C, 2021, "SESAME Topic Prompts", https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/07GFI2, DR-NTU (Data), V1

Topic prompts for eliciting speech in different languages. The cards were designed to around one minute of informal speech in the official languages of Singapore: English, Chinese, Malay, and Tamil. The topic prompts were first piloted in 2019, and rolled out for elicitation task...

SESAME Picture Cards

Apr 7, 2021

Styles, Suzy J; Woon, Fei Ting; Mohd Salleh, Nur Sakinah; binte Amran, Shaza; Yogarrajah, Eshwaaree C, 2021, "SESAME Picture Cards", https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/BI71GY, DR-NTU (Data), V1

Picture Cards for eliciting speech in different languages. The pictures were designed to elicit the syllables /pi/ /pa/ and /pu/ in the word onset position in the official languages of Singapore: English, Chinese, Malay, and Tamil. The picture cards were first piloted in 2019, an...

Green Grass Park (Tamil) - A SESAME Research Tool

Jul 28, 2020 - Green Grass Park

Pan, Lei; Fong, Seraphina; Sundaray, Shamala; Yogarrajah, Eshwaaree; Styles, Suzy J, 2020, "Green Grass Park (Tamil) - A SESAME Research Tool", https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/T4XNLX, DR-NTU (Data), V1, UNF:6:LP+d/ejj1Ry48MAhBvZ7lQ== [fileUNF]

Green Grass Park (Malay) - A SESAME Research Tool

Jul 28, 2020 - Green Grass Park

Pan, Lei; Fong, Seraphina; Sundaray, Shamala; Salleh, Nur Sakinah; Binte Amran, Shaza; Styles, Suzy J, 2020, "Green Grass Park (Malay) - A SESAME Research Tool", https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/AYBX7A, DR-NTU (Data), V1, UNF:6:kGpQHr6Lp99N55sTptuOzw== [fileUNF]

Green Grass Park (Nanyang Technological University)

Jul 28, 2020

In the domain of speech elicitation, speakers tend to use more ‘standard’ pronunciations when reading individual words in isolation, as compared to reading words within the context of a sentence, or talking freely off-the-cuff (Labov, 1966). When speakers have a complex task to a...

Green Grass Park (Mandarin Chinese) - A SESAME Research Tool

Jul 28, 2020 - Green Grass Park

Pan, Lei; Fong, Seraphina; Styles, Suzy J, 2020, "Green Grass Park (Mandarin Chinese) - A SESAME Research Tool", https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/S6Q4SP, DR-NTU (Data), V1, UNF:6:yo2rNom2IDIjZX1A8MA87A== [fileUNF]

Green Grass Park - Picture Description

Jul 28, 2020 - Green Grass Park

Pan, Lei; Fong, Seraphina; Styles, Suzy J, 2020, "Green Grass Park - Picture Description", https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/W3HFGJ, DR-NTU (Data), V1

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