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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Spring-Village Picture Cards(Nanyang Technological University) Mar 29, 2022 The Spring Village Picture Cards are a set of illustrated cards representing words Mandarin Chinese. The words make minimal pairs which are matched for tone, and contrast in one speech segment, as illustrated by the word pair 村 'village' and 春 'spring' (Hanyu Pinyin: cūn, chūn; I...
SESAME Topic Prompts Apr 7, 2021 Styles, Suzy J; binte Amran, Shaza; Ang, Xin Wen; Mohd Salleh, Nur Sakinah; Woon, Fei Ting; Yogarrajah, Eshwaaree C, 2021, "SESAME Topic Prompts", https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/07GFI2, DR-NTU (Data), V1 Topic prompts for eliciting speech in different languages. The cards were designed to around one minute of informal speech in the official languages of Singapore: English, Chinese, Malay, and Tamil. The topic prompts were first piloted in 2019, and rolled out for elicitation task...
SESAME_TopicPrompts_Documentation.pdf Apr 7, 2021 - SESAME Topic Prompts Adobe PDF - 1.1 MB - MD5: 30b7d10f665e1b30d9f13378a0520265 Documentation file explaining the SESAME Topic Prompts and the development of the tool
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Spring-Village Picture Cards(Nanyang Technological University)

Mar 29, 2022

The Spring Village Picture Cards are a set of illustrated cards representing words Mandarin Chinese. The words make minimal pairs which are matched for tone, and contrast in one speech segment, as illustrated by the word pair 村 'village' and 春 'spring' (Hanyu Pinyin: cūn, chūn; I...

SESAME Topic Prompts

Apr 7, 2021

Styles, Suzy J; binte Amran, Shaza; Ang, Xin Wen; Mohd Salleh, Nur Sakinah; Woon, Fei Ting; Yogarrajah, Eshwaaree C, 2021, "SESAME Topic Prompts", https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/07GFI2, DR-NTU (Data), V1

Topic prompts for eliciting speech in different languages. The cards were designed to around one minute of informal speech in the official languages of Singapore: English, Chinese, Malay, and Tamil. The topic prompts were first piloted in 2019, and rolled out for elicitation task...

SESAME_TopicPrompts_Documentation.pdf