## West Yorkshire Regional English Database (WYRED)
The WYRED corpus was created to be a forensically-relevant population data resource for male speakers of the West Yorkshire accent, as part of the [WYRED project][1], whose recordings are now publically available for download [here][2]. The recordings largely followed the protocols used by the DyViS project, the SPADE project shared the semi-scripted mock police interview recordings.
The recordings were aligned by SPADE using the MFA (note therefore that there will be some American/British English mismatches in transcription).
IMPORTANT NOTE: Hesitations such as ‘um’ and ‘er’ may have been transcribed as ‘hes’ without brackets and are therefore ‘aligned’ as |HH|EH1|z| usually where the ‘um’ or ‘er’ occurs, therefore measures for ‘hes’ should be discarded for this corpus.
**Number of speakers:** 150 (all M)\
**Hours of speech:** Approx 60\
**Years recorded:** 2016-2018\
**Speaker dimensions:** gender, age, region, recording year, recording date/time, regional identification, employment, education completed, current university status.
### Project Reference ###
Gold, E., Ross, S., & Earnshaw, K. (2018). The ‘West Yorkshire Regional English Database’: Investigation into the generalizability of reference populations for forensic speaker comparison paperwork. Proc. Interspeech, Sep 2-6 2018, Hyderabad, 2748-2752.\
Gold, Erica (2020). WYRED - West Yorkshire Regional English Database 2016-2019. [Data Collection]. Colchester, Essex: UK Data Service. 10.5255/UKDA-SN-854354
[1]: http://wyredproject.com/
[2]: https://t.co/dQPPadoAnA?amp=1
