Although the full corpus contains over 4,800 recordings, we have highlighted some of the most and least musical recordings, as identified by our set of internal raters. These are categorized based on speaker sex (male, female) as well as intended audience (child, adult).
Female Talker, Adult-Directed Speech
Musical
Details:
Filename: a_f_pol_01-01-434.wav
Language: Polish
Nonmusical
Details:
Filename: a_f_pol_01-01-585.wav
Language: Polish
Female Talker, Child-Directed Speech
Musical
Details:
Filename: c_f_deu_02-01-168.wav
Language: German
Nonmusical
Details:
Filename: c_f_deu_02-01-177.wav
Language: German
Male Talker, Adult-Directed Speech
Musical
Details:
Filename: a_m_rus_01-01-281.wav
Language: Russian
Nonmusical
Details:
Filename: a_m_nld_01-02-121.wav
Language: Dutch
Male Talker, Child-Directed Speech
Musical
Details:
Filename: c_m_pol_01-09-257.wav
Language: Polish
Nonmusical
Details:
Filename: c_m_pol_01-07-358.wav
Language: Polish
If you are interested in using these recordings for your own work, please visit the Downloads page. You are able to download the full corpus, or validated subsets of the corpus (including the most and least musical recordings for each speaker sex, intended audience, and talker).
The development of this corpus was supported by a SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2024).
