This is a corpus of elicited controlled speech. The stimuli was a sequence of dialogues with intermittent fillers. This repository is for only the stimuli. The stimuli was designed to elicit intonation patterns for questions and answers in two Armenian dialects: Western Armenian (WA) and Eastern Armenian (EA). The recordings can be used for topics like intonation prosody or ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition). The dataset is is open-access at 8,852 dialogues, consisting of 23,711 utterances (individual sound files), for a total of 2.7GB and 8.5hrs. Each utterance has a sound file, a Praat TextGrid (with full linguistic annotation), and text file that has orthographic forms for easier ASR uses. Pronunciation dictionaries are provided for ASR purposes as well.

{"references": ["DiCanio, Christian. 2020. Sound file subdivision. Praat script. Accessed April 15 2022 from https://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~cdicanio/scripts/Sound_file_division.praat"]}