15 Managing Data for Integrated Speech Corpus Analysis in SPeech Across Dialects of English (SPADE)

This data management use case discusses the SPeech Across Dialects of English (SPADE) project (for details, see https://spade.glasgow.ac.uk/.) SPADE was devised to carry out large-scale integrated speech corpus analysis across a subset of Englishes. In so doing, the project aims to facilitate large-scale integrated speech corpus analysis for the speech and linguistics research communities in two ways. First, the project will generate large, publicly available, derived data sets of acoustic measures for English speech sounds. Second, it will create freely accessible software for future use by other researchers for analyzing their own data sets: the Integrated Speech Corpus Analysis (ISCAN) system. The intended audience for this chapter thus includes (1) readers wishing to use the derived data sets of acoustic measures in their own work and seeking background on the SPADE project and how the ISCAN software works and (2) readers who would like to carry out their own large-scale integrated corpus analysis projects (as part of a research team) and would like to know about a previous effort.