USE OF A LARGE-SCALE SPONTANEOUS SPEECH CORPUS IN THE STUDY OF LINGUISTIC VARIATION
Kikuo Maekawa, Hanae Koiso, Hideaki Kikuchi, Kiyoko Yoneyama · 2003
Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese, or CSJ, is a large-scale database of spontaneous Japanese. It contains speech signal and transcription of about 7 million words along with various annotations like POS and phonetic labels. After describing its design issues, the potential of the CSJ as a resource for linguistic variation study was evaluated.