Vehicle City Voices Corpus – Part I

Introduction Vehicle City Voices Corpus – Part I was developed at the University of Michigan-Flint, and is an ongoing oral history project and survey of English language variation in Flint, Michigan. It contains approximately 16 hours of speech with corresponding transcripts from interviews of Flint residents conducted between 2012 and 2015. The corpus was designed to provide high-quality recordings for acoustic analysis and to examine narrative structure and discursive construction of individual and collective identity in urban spaces. Data This release is comprised of 21 interviews by undergraduate and graduate students for civic engagement projects in linguistics courses and by a graduate student research assistant. Participants (11 female, 10 male) were born between 1935 and 1991 and represented a range of ages, genders, and ethnicities. Of the interviewees, 11 were Black/African American, 8 were White/Caucasian, and 2 were biracial/mixed ethnic heritage. Interviews took place in various locations in Flint, including university and community spaces and a church meeting room. Questions focused on recollections of important community events, remembrances about the community, the interviewee's relationship to the auto industry and the city's physical transformation, among other topics. Sessions were recorded using Marantz PMD661 portable SD recorders with accompanying Audio-Technica AT831B lavalier condenser microphones. The original recordings were uncompressed (PCM-16) sound files stored in WAV format recorded at a sampling rate of 44,100 Hz. These files were then converted to FLAC format. Transcripts are plain text and UTF-8. Metadata (where provided by participants) includes information on gender, ethnicity, year of birth, level of education, field of employment, average income, length of time living in Flint and its surrounding areas, as well as interviewer age, gender, and ethnicity. In addition, original interview durations, edited interview durations, interview year, and transcript word counts are also provided in the metadata file. Samples Please view this audio sample and transcript sample. Updates None at this time. Portions © 2017 The Regents of the University of Michigan, © 2017 Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania汽车城之声语料库——第一部分（Vehicle City Voices Corpus – Part I）由密歇根大学弗林特分校开发，是一项持续进行的口述历史项目，旨在调查密歇根州弗林特地区的英语语言变体情况。该语料库收录了2012至2015年间对弗林特居民进行访谈所得到的约16小时语音数据及对应转写文本。本语料库的设计初衷是为声学分析提供高质量录音素材，并用于探究城市空间中个体与集体身份的叙事结构及话语建构方式。 本次发布的内容包含21段访谈录音，访谈实施者分别为语言学课程公民参与项目的本科生、研究生，以及一名研究生研究助理。受访对象共21人，其中女性11名、男性10名，出生年份介于1935年至1991年之间，涵盖多样的年龄、性别与族裔背景。受访人群中，11人为非裔美国人，8人为白人/高加索裔，2人为混血族裔。 访谈地点遍布弗林特市内各类场所，包括大学校园、社区空间及教堂会议室。访谈问题主要围绕重要社区事件回忆、社区记忆、受访者与汽车产业的关联以及城市空间物理变迁等主题展开。 访谈录音采用马兰士（Marantz）PMD661便携式SD录音机搭配铁三角（Audio-Technica）AT831B领夹式电容麦克风录制。原始录音为未压缩（PCM-16）音频文件，以WAV格式存储，采样率为44100 Hz，后续被转换为FLAC格式。转写文本采用纯文本UTF-8编码。 元数据（由受访者提供的部分）包含性别、族裔、出生年份、受教育程度、就业领域、平均收入、在弗林特及周边地区的居住时长等信息，同时也记录了访谈者的年龄、性别与族裔。此外，元数据文件中还包含访谈原始时长、编辑后时长、访谈年份以及转写文本词数等内容。 请查看本数据集的音频样例与转写样例。 暂无更新计划。 部分内容 © 2017 密歇根大学董事会，© 2017 宾夕法尼亚大学董事会