Difference between revisions of "Classroom:Simon's cat - multi-lingual"

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We are a group of graduate students at the linguistic department at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology that work on text and speech annotation.

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We have used work by the English animator Simon Tofield to create parallel recordings in [ ] languages? We have then annotated these recordings using Praat and TypeCraft.

You can learn more about Simon and his cat by going to the official Simon's cat Website.

Simon's cat videos can be watched for example on YouTube.

Example

• Source information:
• Speaker:
• Language:
• Date:
• Size of the records:
• Duration of the records:
• Place: Phonetic laboratory – ISK Dragvoll (Trondheim - Norway)
• Purpose: Class work LING 2008, exercise L1/P1
• Supervisor: Williem A. van Dommelen and Dorothee B. Hellan

Simon's cat in Brazilian Portuguese

• Source information:
• Speaker: Franciane Rocha
• Language: Brazilian Portuguese
• Date: 13.01.2011
• Size of the records: 5.54 MB
• Duration of the records: 00:04:43
• Place: Phonetic laboratory – ISK Dragvoll (Trondheim - Norway)
• Purpose: Class work LING 2008, exercise L1/P1
• Supervisor: Williem A. van Dommelen and Dorothee B. Hellan

Simon's cat in Mandarin Chinese

• Source information:
• Speaker: Miaomiao Zhang
• Language: Mandarin Chinese
• Date: 13.01.2011
• Size of the records: 1.63 MB
• Duration of the records: 00:01:46
• Place: Phonetic laboratory – ISK Dragvoll (Trondheim - Norway)
• Purpose: Class work LING 2008, exercise L1/P1
• Supervisor: Williem A. van Dommelen and Dorothee B. Hellan

Simon's Cat in Ewe

• Source information:
• Speaker: Mercy Motte
• Language: Ewe
• Date: 11.01.2011
• Size of the records: 2.9 MB
• Duration of the records: 00:03:07
• Place: Phonetic laboratory – ISK Dragvoll (Trondheim - Norway)
• Purpose: Class work LING 2008, exercise L1/P1
• Supervisor: Williem A. van Dommelen and Dorothee B. Hellan