This corpus contains a selection from the TIMIT Acoustic-Phonetic Continuous Speech Corpus, consisting of speech files, annotations,and associated materials: * 16 speakers from 8 dialect regions * 1 male and 1 female from each dialect region * total
LCMC语料库是一个100万词次(按每1.6个汉字对应一个英文单词折算)的现代汉语书面语通用型平衡语料库。起先建立时,它是作为英国经社研究委员会资助项目Contrasting Tense and Aspect in English and Chinese的部分成果。肖忠华最初的设想是要将其建成同FLOB和FROWN对应的现代汉语语料库。筹建这样的一个语料库的另一个动因是:尽管已经有很多汉语语料库存在,但却没有一个完全免费对公众开放的平衡的汉语语料库