Labelled data bank of spoken standard German: the Kiel corpus of read/spontaneous speech

The structural frame for a computer databank of spoken German and its integration into basic and applied phonetic research has been developed at Kiel University in Germany (IPDS) and is continually being filled with segmentally and prosodically labelled data from read and spontaneous speech recordings. In future more diverse types of spontaneous interactions will be included in the Kiel Corpus. The range of phonetic analyses will be extended, also to include prosodic variables and comparisons of speaking styles. Databank analyses will provide rules for connected speech processes, which in turn will assist in the development of automatic segmentation and labelling procedures. Finally, this phonetic databank concept can be extended to other languages to initiate large scale multilingual phonetic comparisons.