VOICE: Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English

Barbara Seidlhofer ; Angelika Breiteneder; Theresa Klimpfinger; Stefan Majewski; Marie-Luise Pitzl

English

Encoding format: TEI P5 XML

Linguistics
Linguistics analysis (Linguistics)

• designation: CollectionText
• size: 934 files: ca. 162.3 MB

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VOICE is based on audio-recordings of 151 naturally-occurring, non-scripted, face-to-face interactions involving 753 identified individuals from 49 different first language backgrounds using English as a lingua franca (ELF), i.e. English used as a common means of communication among speakers from different first-language backgrounds. The recordings were carried out between July 2001 and November 2007, usually using portable mini-disc recorders with external microphones. Most of the audio recordings are supplemented by detailed field notes including information about the nature of the speech event and the interaction taking place as well as about the participants engaging in these ELF interactions. The interactions recorded are complete speech events from different domains (educational, leisure, professional) and of different speech event types (conversation, interview, meeting, panel, press conference, question-answer session, seminar discussion, service encounter, working group discussion, workshop discussion). The audio-recordings were transcribed, checked and proof-read by trained transcribers and researchers in accordance with the VOICE mark-up and spelling conventions [2.1] (see http://www.univie.ac.at/voice/page/transcription_general_information). Details for each electronic text are given in the individual text headers. The principles and practices underlying the selection an

The primary language of the corpus is English as a lingua franca, with some switches to other languages. The corpus consists of manual transcriptions of audio recordings of speech.