{"id":85,"date":"2015-07-01T10:55:02","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T10:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valeriehazan.com\/?page_id=85"},"modified":"2026-06-29T16:01:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T16:01:47","slug":"lucid-corpus-london-ucl-clear-speech-in-interaction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/valeriehazan.com\/index.php\/lucid-corpus-london-ucl-clear-speech-in-interaction\/","title":{"rendered":"LUCID Corpus &#8211; London UCL Clear speech in interaction"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"85\" class=\"elementor elementor-85\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7eb5d9b6 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7eb5d9b6\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-73c558ab\" data-id=\"73c558ab\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-58db81d0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"58db81d0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"heading\">Authors: Rachel Baker and Valerie Hazan<\/p><p class=\"p\"><a href=\"https:\/\/valeriehazan.com-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DP4.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-73 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/valeriehazan.com-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DP4.jpg\" alt=\"DP4\" width=\"1000\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/valeriehazan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DP4.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/valeriehazan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DP4-300x128.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p><p class=\"p\"><strong>The LUCID corpus is made available to the Speech and Language research community for \u00a0non-commercial research purposes.<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"p\"><strong>The participants:<\/strong><\/p><ul class=\"square\"><li>40 native southern British English speakers (20 pairs)<\/li><li>20 male, 20 female<\/li><li>18-29 years old (mean age: 23 years)<\/li><li>non-bilingual and normal hearing thresholds (20dB or below)<\/li><\/ul><p class=\"p\"><strong>For each talker:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><table class=\"silvatable MsoNormalTable\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"3\"><colgroup> <col class=\"align-left\" width=\"33%\" \/> <col class=\"align-left\" width=\"33%\" \/> <col class=\"align-left\" width=\"33%\" \/><\/colgroup><tbody><tr class=\"odd\"><td class=\"align-left\"><strong>Session1<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"align-left\">DiapixUK (3 pix): casual speech<\/td><td class=\"align-left\">good listening conditions<\/td><\/tr><tr class=\"even\"><td class=\"align-left\"><strong>Session2<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"align-left\">DiapixUK (6 pix): clear speech (Cochlear Implant simulation)<\/td><td class=\"align-left\">each person hears vocoded speech for 3 pix<\/td><\/tr><tr class=\"odd\"><td class=\"align-left\"><strong>Session3<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"align-left\">DiapixUK: (3 pix): clear speech (Noise or L2: 20 participants in each)<\/td><td class=\"align-left\">one person hears speech in multi-talker babble (Noise) or has a partner who is a low-proficiency English speaker (L2)<\/td><\/tr><tr class=\"even\"><td class=\"align-left\"><strong>Session4\u00a0<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"align-left\">Picture naming &amp; sentence reading: casual speech<\/td><td class=\"align-left\">&#8216;speak casually as is talking to a friend&#8217;<\/td><\/tr><tr class=\"odd\"><td class=\"align-left\"><strong>Session5<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"align-left\">Picture naming &amp; sentence reading: clear speech<\/td><td class=\"align-left\">&#8216;speak clearly as if talking to someone who is hearing-impaired&#8217;<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><table class=\"silvatable MsoNormalTable\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"3\"><colgroup> <col class=\"align-left\" width=\"33%\" \/> <col class=\"align-left\" width=\"33%\" \/> <col class=\"align-left\" width=\"33%\" \/><\/colgroup><tbody><tr class=\"odd\"><td class=\"align-left\"><strong>Speech type<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"align-left\"><strong>Speech style<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"align-left\"><strong>Minutes per participant<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr class=\"even\"><td class=\"align-left\">spontaneous (DiapixUK)<\/td><td class=\"align-left\">casual, clear<\/td><td class=\"align-left\">110<\/td><\/tr><tr class=\"odd\"><td class=\"align-left\">read (sentences)<\/td><td class=\"align-left\">casual, clear<\/td><td class=\"align-left\">30<\/td><\/tr><tr class=\"even\"><td class=\"align-left\">semi-spontaneous (picture naming)<\/td><td class=\"align-left\">casual, clear<\/td><td class=\"align-left\">30<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><p class=\"p\"><strong>Format:<\/strong><\/p><ul class=\"disc\"><li>Stereo wav files for two-way dialog and individual wav files for each speaker<\/li><li>Word-aligned orthographic transcriptions (praat TextGrids format), apart from the speech for the L2 speakers<\/li><\/ul><p class=\"p\"><strong>Access:<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"p\">&#8211; Audio files, TextGrids and picture materials are all available from the <a href=\"https:\/\/speechbox.linguistics.northwestern.edu\/#!\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Speechbox<\/a> Resource at Northwestern University:<\/p><p class=\"p\">We are grateful to our collaborator Prof. Ann Bradlow and her colleagues for enabling us to include the LUCID Corpus within this excellent resource.<\/p><p class=\"p\"><strong>Acknowledgments:<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"p\">An acknowledgment should be included in all publications reporting work that has made use of the LUCID corpus, regardless of the format or the medium in which the publications are made. If using the diapix materials or recordings, the following can be referenced:<\/p><p class=\"p\">Baker, R., &amp; Hazan, V. (2011). <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.3758\/s13428-011-0075-y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DiapixUK: task materials for the elicitation of multiple spontaneous speech dialogs<\/a>. <i>Behavior Research Methods, 43 (3)<\/i>, 761-770. doi:10.3758\/s13428-011-0075-y<\/p><p class=\"p\"><strong>Get in touch!<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"p\">We would be very interested to hear of research that is making use of the LUCID corpus or DiapixUK materials, so please contact Valerie (v.hazan @ ucl.ac.uk) to let us know how you are using these.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authors: Rachel Baker and Valerie Hazan The LUCID corpus is made available to the Speech and Language research community for \u00a0non-commercial research purposes. 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