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.

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Adobe PDF - 57.1 MB - MD5: 419148080b0bab24dc5912ce4f3c063f
Styles SJ (2020) Little Orangutan: What a Scary Storm. This file is the original picture book designed for A4 large format printing, or A3 size printing using the 'booklet' setting. Part of the collection of SESAME Research Tools developed in the BLIP Lab at NTU in Singapore
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Styles SJ (2020) Little Orangutan: What a Scary Storm. This file is a PowerPoint version of the original book with 2-page per view display, adapted for sharing onscreen including with screencasting software. Part of the collection of SESAME Research Tools developed in the BLIP La...
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