Switchboard Corpus Of American English Telephone Conversations, The Switchboard Corpus The Switchboard Corpus contains c. Brigham Young University/English-Corpora. Dialogue Corpora As the name says, dialogue corpora usually contain dialogic spoken interactions, although sometimes more than two interlocutors may also be involved. The Switchboard corpus, consisting of telephone conversations between speakers of American English, is one of the longest-standing corpora of fully spontaneous speech. The Switchboard Telephone Speech Corpus is a corpus of spoken English language consisted of almost 260 hours of speech. The participants in the conversations vary in age and represent all major US dialect groups. It was created in 1990 by Texas Instruments via a DARPA grant, and released in 1992 by NIST. It consists of 2320 spontaneous conversations averaging 6 minutes in length and comprising about 3 million words of text, spoken by over 500 speakers of both sexes from every major dialect of American English. This is the version of English Switchboard [13] corrected and aligned at ICSI, comprising 2,438 conversations. The first release of the corpus was published by NIST and distributed by the LDC in 1992-3. wkpxdb, pnk, 7q, q7dle6, 79, ntxrvwl, 6rlov, mkbrs7, 7s5n, ga,