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_Mandarin-C.pdf Jul 28, 2020 - Green Grass Park (Mandarin Chinese) - A SESAME Research Tool Adobe PDF - 28.4 MB - MD5: 97f3b96b76c64e4d750c00499ea37b5a Chinese version of the Mandarin Chinese edition of the Green Grass Park picture description task - a SESAME Research Tool, from the BLIP Lab. This version was designed to elicit specific words in Mandarin Chinese. The words are displayed in Hanzi Chinese Characters (simplified) o...
GreenGrassPark_Mandarin-CPE.pdf Jul 28, 2020 - Green Grass Park (Mandarin Chinese) - A SESAME Research Tool Adobe PDF - 28.7 MB - MD5: 09b3cae69da1e758d4a1e03795f4e502 Multilingual version of the Mandarin Chinese edition of the Green Grass Park picture description task - a SESAME Research Tool, from the BLIP Lab. This version was designed to elicit specific words in Mandarin Chinese. The words are displayed in Hanzi Chinese Characters (simplifi...
GreenGrassPark_Mandarin-CP.pdf Jul 28, 2020 - Green Grass Park (Mandarin Chinese) - A SESAME Research Tool Adobe PDF - 28.7 MB - MD5: 00d219be4e98f378275ba3e8c62fa330 Chinese version of the Mandarin Chinese edition of the Green Grass Park picture description task - a SESAME Research Tool, from the BLIP Lab. This version was designed to elicit specific words in Mandarin Chinese. The words are displayed in Hanzi Chinese Characters (simplified) w...
GreenGrassPark_Mandarin-E.pdf Jul 28, 2020 - Green Grass Park (Mandarin Chinese) - A SESAME Research Tool Adobe PDF - 15.2 MB - MD5: 1c48185fa42493f22153c8508f227534 English version of the Mandarin Chinese edition of the Green Grass Park picture description task - a SESAME Research Tool, from the BLIP Lab. This version was designed to elicit specific words in Mandarin Chinese. The words are displayed in English only, as suitable for a transla...
GreenGrassPark_Mandarin_LexVar.tab Jul 28, 2020 - Green Grass Park (Mandarin Chinese) - A SESAME Research Tool Tabular Data - 1.5 KB - 6 Variables, 32 Observations - UNF:6:yo2rNom2IDIjZX1A8MA87A== Lexical variables for the words used as stimuli in the Mandarin Chinese edition of the Green Grass Park picture description task - a SESAME Research Tool, from the BLIP Lab. Contains word frequencies from Mainland Chinese, and Age of Acquisition estimates for Mandarin-speaking ch...
GreenGrassPark_Mandarin-W.pdf Jul 28, 2020 - Green Grass Park (Mandarin Chinese) - A SESAME Research Tool Adobe PDF - 15.1 MB - MD5: 4bf70e24723c16bc7aa3f938ddfe6a6c Wordless version of the Mandarin Chinese 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 Mandarin Chinese. The words are not shown, as suitable for free elicitation tasks (...
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...
PanFongStyles_SESAME_GreenGrassPark_Documentation.pdf Jul 28, 2020 - Green Grass Park - Picture Description Adobe PDF - 1.2 MB - MD5: f1971c8febee692ca8737b060ab2ed5f Documentation for the Green Grass Park picture description task, a SESAME Research Tool developed by the BLIP Lab. This archive contains documents that describe the development and context for the various versions of Green Grass Park, including age of acquisition estimates for th...
Little Orangutan: What a Scary Storm! Mar 27, 2020 Styles, Suzy J, 2020, "Little Orangutan: What a Scary Storm!", https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/MJMFXV, DR-NTU (Data), V1 Styles, SJ (2020) 'Little Orangutan: What a Scary Storm! A Picture Story'. Part of the SESAME collection of research tools: Speech Elicitation for Spectral Analysis in a Multilingual Environment, developed by the BLIP Lab at NTU in Singapore. "This picture story has no written wo...
SESAME-Documentation_WhatAScaryStorm.pdf Mar 27, 2020 - Little Orangutan: What a Scary Storm! Adobe PDF - 2.9 MB - MD5: 5718a224c9d421d2a165142fb0c2265f Styles SJ (2020) SESAME Research Tool Documentation for 'What a Scary Storm!' Wordless Picture Book. This document describes the research tool, its uses and development with full credits to funding agencies and project contributors.

GreenGrassPark_Mandarin-C.pdf

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

Adobe PDF - 28.4 MB -

Chinese version of the Mandarin Chinese edition of the Green Grass Park picture description task - a SESAME Research Tool, from the BLIP Lab. This version was designed to elicit specific words in Mandarin Chinese. The words are displayed in Hanzi Chinese Characters (simplified) o...

GreenGrassPark_Mandarin-CPE.pdf

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

Adobe PDF - 28.7 MB -

Multilingual version of the Mandarin Chinese edition of the Green Grass Park picture description task - a SESAME Research Tool, from the BLIP Lab. This version was designed to elicit specific words in Mandarin Chinese. The words are displayed in Hanzi Chinese Characters (simplifi...

GreenGrassPark_Mandarin-CP.pdf

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

Adobe PDF - 28.7 MB -

GreenGrassPark_Mandarin-E.pdf

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

Adobe PDF - 15.2 MB -

English version of the Mandarin Chinese edition of the Green Grass Park picture description task - a SESAME Research Tool, from the BLIP Lab. This version was designed to elicit specific words in Mandarin Chinese. The words are displayed in English only, as suitable for a transla...

GreenGrassPark_Mandarin_LexVar.tab

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

Tabular Data - 1.5 KB - 6 Variables, 32 Observations -

Lexical variables for the words used as stimuli in the Mandarin Chinese edition of the Green Grass Park picture description task - a SESAME Research Tool, from the BLIP Lab. Contains word frequencies from Mainland Chinese, and Age of Acquisition estimates for Mandarin-speaking ch...

GreenGrassPark_Mandarin-W.pdf

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

Adobe PDF - 15.1 MB -

Wordless version of the Mandarin Chinese 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 Mandarin Chinese. The words are not shown, as suitable for free elicitation tasks (...

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...

PanFongStyles_SESAME_GreenGrassPark_Documentation.pdf

Jul 28, 2020 - Green Grass Park - Picture Description

Adobe PDF - 1.2 MB -

Documentation for the Green Grass Park picture description task, a SESAME Research Tool developed by the BLIP Lab. This archive contains documents that describe the development and context for the various versions of Green Grass Park, including age of acquisition estimates for th...

Little Orangutan: What a Scary Storm!

Mar 27, 2020

Styles, Suzy J, 2020, "Little Orangutan: What a Scary Storm!", https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/MJMFXV, DR-NTU (Data), V1

Styles, SJ (2020) 'Little Orangutan: What a Scary Storm! A Picture Story'. Part of the SESAME collection of research tools: Speech Elicitation for Spectral Analysis in a Multilingual Environment, developed by the BLIP Lab at NTU in Singapore. "This picture story has no written wo...

SESAME-Documentation_WhatAScaryStorm.pdf

Mar 27, 2020 - Little Orangutan: What a Scary Storm!

Adobe PDF - 2.9 MB -

Styles SJ (2020) SESAME Research Tool Documentation for 'What a Scary Storm!' Wordless Picture Book. This document describes the research tool, its uses and development with full credits to funding agencies and project contributors.

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