Multi-Language Conversational Telephone Speech 2014 – French Group: 156 hours of Haitian Creole and West African Frenchrecordings for automatic language identification research & technology evaluation bit.ly/3VMhju0

From the LORELEI companion project: LoReHLT Turkish Representative Language Pack features monolingual and parallel text, annotations, audio recordings, software tools and more for human language technology development to address emergent situations bit.ly/3VHvy3k

Global TIMIT L1 Tianjin - L2 English: developed w/ Tianjin University, 43 hours of read speech from 50 Tianjin Mandarin dialect speakers, w/ force-aligned audio & transcripts; speakers were fluent in English based on English assessment test scores bit.ly/4dBYtvM

Lots of information in LDC’s October newsletter – the 2027 publications preview, Fall 2026 data scholarship awards and three new publications ldc-upenn.blogspot.com/

MATERIAL Lithuanian-English Language Pack has 64 hours of Lithuanian conversational telephone speech, transcripts, English translations, annotations and queries designed to support cross language information retrieval bit.ly/4cMo1pD

CALLHOME Mandarin Chinese Lexicon Second Edition: morphological, phonological, & frequency info for 44,404 Mandarin Chinese words from transcripts of telephone speech between Mandarin Chinese speakers and Chinese news text, with a pronunciation dictionary bit.ly/4cIfPXt

CALLHOME Mandarin Chinese Second Edition brings original speech and transcript datasets up to date with new transcripts and revised directories, file formats and documentation bit.ly/3URRAQp

Check out the September newsletter for info on LDC’s three new publications – CALLHOME Mandarin Chinese Speech Second Edition, CALLHOME Mandarin Chinese Lexicon Second Edition and MATERIAL Lithuanian-English Language Pack ldc-upenn.blogspot.com/

More LDC data in the LORELEI series: LORELEI Arabic Representative Language Pack features monolingual and parallel text, annotations, software tools and more for human language technology development to address emergent situations bit.ly/4wVqhme

Multi-Language Conversational Telephone Speech 2014 – Slavic Group: 20 hours of Polish and Russian recordings for automatic language identification research & technology evaluation bit.ly/45VoyBB

Parsed EEBO-TCP: 59,433 Early Modern English texts pos-tagged and parsed following the methodology of Penn Parsed Corpora of Historical English; 48.6 million parsed sentences (trees) comprising 1.5 billion+ tokens; CorpusSearch 2 program included bit.ly/3Sc49oy

LDC’s August newsletter has the latest on the fall data scholarship application deadline and three new releases – Parsed EEBO-TCP, Multi-Language Conversational Telephone Speech 2014 – Slavic Group and LORELEI Arabic Representative Language Pack ldc-upenn.blogspot.com/

CALLHOME American English Lexicon (PRONLEX) Second Edition: citation-form pronunciations following the PRONLEX phonemic transcription schema for 90,988 words from WSJ CSR text and transcripts from the Switchboard and CALLHOME American English collections bit.ly/3SRBWn7

CALLHOME American English Second Edition brings original speech and transcript datasets up to date with new transcripts and revised directories, file formats and documentation bit.ly/3SOb3R3

2012 NIST SRE Test Set: 10,000+ hours of English conversational telephone speech and interviews from LDC’s Mixer collections for test and modeling, along with answer keys, trial files and documentation bit.ly/3SR9txM

See LDC’s July newsletter for information on Fall 2026 data scholarship applications and three new publications – 2012 NIST SRE Test Set, CALLHOME American English Second Edition and CALLHOME American English Lexicon (PRONLEX) Second Edition ldc-upenn.blogspot.com/

LORELEI Multiway Translated Text: a fixed set of English texts translated into 24 languages and used in the representative language packs developed by LDC for the DARPA LORELEI program; source data was newswire, a phrasebook and an elicitation corpus bit.ly/4ooyQ5B

Multi-Language Conversational Telephone Speech 2014 – Spanish & Portuguese: 123 hours of Brazilian Portuguese, Caribbean Spanish, European Spanish and Latin American Spanish recordings for automatic language identification research & technology evaluation bit.ly/4vGujhn

KAIROS Phase 1 Evaluation Source Data, Annotation & Assessment: English & Spanish web data, annotations, knowledge graphs, system output assessment & human assessment results for 10 complex events, developed by LDC to support the DARPA KAIROS program bit.ly/43qUWej

LDC’s June newsletter contains important announcements for LDC organization account administrators and data licensees as well as details on three new publications ldc-upenn.blogspot.com/