NORWEGIAN (Norway)

Existing databases and their actors

• Basic material: has been produced due to national (NTH) initiative and EEC initiative (EUROMs)
• Telephone corpora: are produced in cooperation by national telecom often in cooperation with Denmark.

Ongoing projects & new initiatives

• Experimental research
• Application-oriented
• Telephone

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  EEC

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  ONOMASTICA - Norwegian Telecom, SINTEF

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  COST project 232 - NTH multi-accented English speech corpus collected over dialed-up international telephone lines

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  COST project 249 - NTH, Norwegian Telecom

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  National: Continuous speech recognition over the telephone line.

Conclusion

Research institutes, National Telecom, telephone operator are present. EUROM-1 to be made available as basic material. General lack of basic research corpora.