## Switchboard Corpus ##
The [Switchboard][1] corpus consists of about 2,400 telephone conversations between random participants from the United States on a variety of topics. SPADE aligned the corpus using the MFA.
Note: Sibilant measures could not be generated for this corpus given that it is telephone speech.
**Number of Speakers:** 543, 241F \
**Hours of Speech:** about 260 \
**Year Recorded:** 1990-1991 \
**Data Guardian:** public, licensed by the Linguistic Data Consortium \
**Speaker Dimensions:** gender
### Corpus Reference ###
Godfrey, John, and Edward Holliman. Switchboard-1 Release 2 LDC97S62.
Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 1993.
[1]: https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC97S62