ENGLISH (United Kingdom)

Existing databases and their actors

• Experimental research

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  Academics: SCRIBE, HCRC Map Task Corpus: British Normal Speech Corpus (advanced), Oxford Acoustic Phonetic database (8 languages).

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  EEC: EUROM-1, EUROM-0, POLYGLOT

• Application-oriented
• Telephone: Bramshill corpus of British English Home Office Telephone recordings: (12 CDs) held by the LDC.

Ongoing projects & new initiatives

English is represented in the EUROCOCOSDA (TED), EAGLES, and ELSNET initiatives.

• Experimental research: National BE-WSJ0CAM, British National Corpus (BNC)
• Application-oriented: SQALE, ONOMASTICA (EEC)
• Telephone: SPEECHDAT (POLYPHONE corpus to be collected by GEC Marconi)

Conclusion

Very active speech community in a variety of areas from fundamental research to technology development and applications. Many universities, companies, national telecom involved in the domain. Strong national effort, with active participation in EEC projects. Basic material seems to be available. EUROM-1 to be made available as multilingual resource (organised by A. Fourcin, UCL). However at the current time, the only resources whose dissemination are well-defined are those managed in cooperation with LDC. Other cases are by local arrangement.