CALLFRIEND Spanish-Non-Caribbean Dialect

<h3>Introduction</h3> <p>The <a href="/Catalog/docs/LDC96S58/index.html" rel="nofollow">CALLFRIEND</a> project supports the development of language identification technology. </p><h3>Data</h3> The corpus consists of 60 unscripted telephone conversations, lasting between 5-30 minutes. The corpus also includes documentation describing speaker information (sex, age, education, callee telephone number) and call information (channel quality, number of speakers). <p>For each conversation, both the caller and callee are native speakers of Spanish from non-Caribbean countries. All calls are domestic and were placed inside the continental United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, or the Dominican Republic. </p><p>Conversations were labeled as either "Caribbean" or "non-Caribbean" based on particular attributes in the speech of the participants. Callers in the "Caribbean" and "non-Caribbean" collections of CALLFRIEND Spanish were identified primarily on the basis of consonant quality patterns, specifically, word-final "s." </p><h3>Updates</h3> There are no updates at this time. </br> Portions © 1996 Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania