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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Slide8.JPG Apr 7, 2021 - SESAME Topic Prompts JPEG Image - 56.7 KB - MD5: f8cac8996afc908f69d3a7340c627a01
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TopicPrompts_English.pdf Apr 7, 2021 - SESAME Topic Prompts Adobe PDF - 45.0 KB - MD5: 9663a21491c7ed4e581e3d8748282c15
TopicPrompts_Malay.pdf Apr 7, 2021 - SESAME Topic Prompts Adobe PDF - 38.7 KB - MD5: 2c881bc35da36e328f2b59714d30b098
TopicPrompts_Mandarin.pdf Apr 7, 2021 - SESAME Topic Prompts Adobe PDF - 273.9 KB - MD5: 323b45d6a03d4070d17e3d7399b307ec
TopicPrompts_Tamil.pdf Apr 7, 2021 - SESAME Topic Prompts Adobe PDF - 100.0 KB - MD5: 87fd77b9ef51b19ea35068790446da96
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...
PictureCards_Chinese_01.pdf Apr 7, 2021 - SESAME Picture Cards Adobe PDF - 69.2 KB - MD5: adc24870a3e3f33a858e8fef4ff6f660
PictureCards_Chinese_02.pdf Apr 7, 2021 - SESAME Picture Cards Adobe PDF - 55.3 KB - MD5: f7ae2a85eb70a2d7f76f3377a17f46a5

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