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.

SESAME Research Tools

• 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.