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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GreenGrassPark_Tamil-TR.pdf Jul 28, 2020 - Green Grass Park (Tamil) - A SESAME Research Tool Adobe PDF - 15.4 MB - MD5: 6f1212468a49a8e541c4a557f00c511f Tamil transliterated version of the Tamil edition of the Green Grass Park picture description task - a SESAME Research Tool, from the BLIP Lab. This edition was designed to elicit specific words in the local Singaporean variety of spoken Tamil. The words are displayed in Tamil sc...
GreenGrassPark_Tamil-W.pdf Jul 28, 2020 - Green Grass Park (Tamil) - A SESAME Research Tool Adobe PDF - 15.3 MB - MD5: fd8615501959518fee0e687de6e49d6e Wordless version of the Tamil edition of the Green Grass Park picture description task - a SESAME Research Tool, from the BLIP Lab. This edition was designed to elicit specific words in the local Singaporean variety of spoken Tamil. The words are not shown, as suitable for free e...
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...
GreenGrassPark_Malay-E.pdf Jul 28, 2020 - Green Grass Park (Malay) - A SESAME Research Tool Adobe PDF - 15.2 MB - MD5: 51d5406c9471f67548a0c70efc19c0a4 English version of the Malay edition of the Green Grass Park picture description task - a SESAME Research Tool, from the BLIP Lab. This edition was designed to elicit specific words in the local Singaporean variety of spoken Malay (Bahasa Melayu). The words are displayed in Engli...
GreenGrassPark_Malay_LexicalVariables.tab Jul 28, 2020 - Green Grass Park (Malay) - A SESAME Research Tool Tabular Data - 945 B - 5 Variables, 28 Observations - UNF:6:kGpQHr6Lp99N55sTptuOzw== Lexical variables for the words used as stimuli in the Malay edition of the Green Grass Park picture description task - a SESAME Research Tool, from the BLIP Lab. Contains word frequencies from Malay Newspapers in Singapore and Malaysia, and Age of Acquisition estimates for Malay...
GreenGrassPark_Malay-ME.pdf Jul 28, 2020 - Green Grass Park (Malay) - A SESAME Research Tool Adobe PDF - 15.2 MB - MD5: 4d98aedf0fe07771ae63c8f55d7dce4b Multilingual version of the Malay edition of the Green Grass Park picture description task - a SESAME Research Tool, from the BLIP Lab. This edition was designed to elicit specific words in the local Singaporean variety of spoken Malay (Bahasa Melayu). The words are displayed in...
GreenGrassPark_Malay-M.pdf Jul 28, 2020 - Green Grass Park (Malay) - A SESAME Research Tool Adobe PDF - 15.2 MB - MD5: 96e56865d82c3150caf67a407425322f Malay version of the Malay edition of the Green Grass Park picture description task - a SESAME Research Tool, from the BLIP Lab. This edition was designed to elicit specific words in the local Singaporean variety of spoken Malay (Bahasa Melayu). The words are displayed in Malay o...
GreenGrassPark_Malay-W.pdf Jul 28, 2020 - Green Grass Park (Malay) - A SESAME Research Tool Adobe PDF - 15.1 MB - MD5: 8bb8740b3ef342074084344bb9cab5c8 Wordless version of the Malay edition of the Green Grass Park picture description task - a SESAME Research Tool, from the BLIP Lab. This edition was designed to elicit specific words in the local Singaporean variety of spoken Malay (Bahasa Melayu). The words are not shown, as sui...
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...

GreenGrassPark_Tamil-TR.pdf

Jul 28, 2020 - Green Grass Park (Tamil) - A SESAME Research Tool

Adobe PDF - 15.4 MB -

Tamil transliterated version of the Tamil edition of the Green Grass Park picture description task - a SESAME Research Tool, from the BLIP Lab. This edition was designed to elicit specific words in the local Singaporean variety of spoken Tamil. The words are displayed in Tamil sc...

GreenGrassPark_Tamil-W.pdf

Jul 28, 2020 - Green Grass Park (Tamil) - A SESAME Research Tool

Adobe PDF - 15.3 MB -

Wordless version of the Tamil edition of the Green Grass Park picture description task - a SESAME Research Tool, from the BLIP Lab. This edition was designed to elicit specific words in the local Singaporean variety of spoken Tamil. The words are not shown, as suitable for free e...

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...

GreenGrassPark_Malay-E.pdf

Jul 28, 2020 - Green Grass Park (Malay) - A SESAME Research Tool

Adobe PDF - 15.2 MB -

English version of the Malay edition of the Green Grass Park picture description task - a SESAME Research Tool, from the BLIP Lab. This edition was designed to elicit specific words in the local Singaporean variety of spoken Malay (Bahasa Melayu). The words are displayed in Engli...

GreenGrassPark_Malay_LexicalVariables.tab

Jul 28, 2020 - Green Grass Park (Malay) - A SESAME Research Tool

Tabular Data - 945 B - 5 Variables, 28 Observations -

Lexical variables for the words used as stimuli in the Malay edition of the Green Grass Park picture description task - a SESAME Research Tool, from the BLIP Lab. Contains word frequencies from Malay Newspapers in Singapore and Malaysia, and Age of Acquisition estimates for Malay...

GreenGrassPark_Malay-ME.pdf

Jul 28, 2020 - Green Grass Park (Malay) - A SESAME Research Tool

Adobe PDF - 15.2 MB -

Multilingual version of the Malay edition of the Green Grass Park picture description task - a SESAME Research Tool, from the BLIP Lab. This edition was designed to elicit specific words in the local Singaporean variety of spoken Malay (Bahasa Melayu). The words are displayed in...

GreenGrassPark_Malay-M.pdf

Jul 28, 2020 - Green Grass Park (Malay) - A SESAME Research Tool

Adobe PDF - 15.2 MB -

Malay version of the Malay edition of the Green Grass Park picture description task - a SESAME Research Tool, from the BLIP Lab. This edition was designed to elicit specific words in the local Singaporean variety of spoken Malay (Bahasa Melayu). The words are displayed in Malay o...

GreenGrassPark_Malay-W.pdf

Jul 28, 2020 - Green Grass Park (Malay) - A SESAME Research Tool

Adobe PDF - 15.1 MB -

Wordless version of the Malay edition of the Green Grass Park picture description task - a SESAME Research Tool, from the BLIP Lab. This edition was designed to elicit specific words in the local Singaporean variety of spoken Malay (Bahasa Melayu). The words are not shown, as sui...

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]

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