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+**"[[http://www.diggingintodata.org/|Digging into Data Challenge]]" 2009 funds two web-based speech-oriented projects:**
+**Harvesting Speech Datasets for Linguistic Research on the Web**
+**Awardees:** Mats Rooth, Cornell University, NSF; Michael Wagner, McGill University, SSHRC.
+**Description:** This project will **harvest audio and transcribed data from podcasts, news broadcasts, public and educational lectures and other sources to create a massive corpus of speech**. Tools will then be developed to analyze the different uses of prosody (rhythm, stress and intonation) within spoken communication.
+**Mining a Year of Speech**
+**Awardees:** Mark Liberman, University of Pennsylvania, NSF; John Coleman, University of Oxford, JISC.
+**Additional Key Participants:**  The British Library.
+**Description:** This project focuses on large scale data analysis of audio -- specifically the spoken word.  This project will create tools to enable rapid and flexible access to **over 9,000 hours of spoken audio files**, containing a wide variety of speech, drawn from some of the leading British and American spoken word corpora, allowing for new kinds of linguistic analysis

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