## Dynamic Variability in Speech (DyViS) ##
[The Dynamic Variability in Speech (DyViS)][1] corpus was created as a forensic database of the speech of male speakers of Southern Standard British English aged 18-25 undertaking a number of tasks involving different speaking styles. The corpus is publicly available and we have aligned a subset, the simulated police interview task (semi-scripted) and the telephone call with an ‘accomplice’ task for each speaker. The TextGrids are suffixed '_int' and '_tel' respectively.
The recordings were aligned by SPADE using the MFA (note therefore that there will be some American/British English mismatches in transcription) as part of the SPADE project. \
IMPORTANT NOTE: As hesitations such as ‘um’ and ‘er’ were transcribed as ‘hes’ without brackets, they are ‘aligned’ as |HH|EH1|z| where the ‘um’ or ‘er’ occurs. Measures for ‘hes’ should therefore be discarded for this corpus.
**Number of Speakers:** 100 \
**Hours of Speech:** 53 \
**Years Recorded:** 2006-2007 \
**Data Guardian:** available from the UK Data Service https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/ \
**Speaker Dimensions:** speaker ID, gender (all Male), age, year of recording
### Corpus References ###
Nolan, F., Dynamic Variability in Speech: a Forensic Phonetic Study
of British English, 2006-2007 [computer file]. Colchester, Essex: UK
Data Archive [distributor], July 2011. SN: 6790 ,
http://dx.doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-6790-1. ESRC Grant no RES-000-23-1248. \
Nolan, F., McDougall, K., de Jong, G. & Hudson, T. (2009). ‘The DyViS
database: style-controlled recordings of 100 homogeneous speakers for forensic phonetic research’, International Journal of Speech,
Language and the Law 16(1), 31-57. \
The original data creators, depositors or copyright holders, the funders of the Data Collections (if different) and the UK Data Archive bear no responsibility for their further analysis or interpretation. Copyright: F. Nolan and University of Cambridge, Department of Linguistics.
[1]: https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=6790
