November 2021
SPADE features in the presentation R 3 Ways: Capturing variability in word-final /r/ in Scottish English, given at the R-atics conference held at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, 18th-19th November 2021.
SPADE at UKLVC 13
September 2021
SPADE features in the presentation The sociolinguistic dynamics of word final /r/ in Scottish English at the 13th UK Language Variation and Change online conference hosted by the University of Glasgow, 8th-10th September 2021.
SPADE OSF data repository now live!
December 2020
The first release of the SPADE project OSF data repository is now live and can be accessed at https://osf.io/4jfrm/
In this first release, we make available acoustic measures for sibilants and durations and static formants for vowels, for 39 corpora (~2200 hours of speech analysed from ~8600 speakers), anonymised where required, with information about dataset generation.
SPADE at virtual JK28 conference satellite workshop on experimental phonetics and phonology
December 2020
SPADE features in the talk Viewing accent variation from a large corpus perspective: Rhoticity in Scottish English at the virtual 28th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference satellite workshop on experimental phonetics and phonology given on 28th December 2020.
SPADE presentation at Australian Linguistic Society 2020 online conference
December 2020
The SPADE project presentation Persuading birds of a feather to flock together – reflections on managing and measuring diverse speech corpora in SPADE was given at the Australian Linguistic Society 2020 online conference on 14th December 2020.
SPADE talk at Cornell Linguistics Circle
December 2020
The SPADE project talk The SPADE project: Large-scale analysis of a spoken language across space and time was given at the Cornell Linguistics Circle on 3rd December 2020.
SPADE publication in “Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence.”
The SPADE project article “Toward “English” Phonetics: Variability in the Pre-consonantal Voicing Effect Across English Dialects and Speakers” has been published in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and can be accessed here.
Sibilant talk slides online for virtual LabPhon17
June 2020
Presentation slides for the SPADE talk Desperately seeking ‘English’ sibilants: Discovering dialect norms and speaker variability for /s S/ from large-scale, multi-dialect analysis are now online in advance of the virtual LabPhon17 conference to be ‘held’ July 6-8 2020.
Try the SPADE Shiny app!
May 2020
Try out our SPADE: Speech over time and space Shiny app here: https://shiny.chass.ncsu.edu/spade/latest/
SPADE at the ICAME41 ‘English Corpus Phonetics and Phonology’ pre-conference digital workshop
May 2020
SPADE is a feature of the presentation What can corpus phonetics tell us about ‘English’ phonology? given at the ICAME41 pre-conference digital workshop English Corpus Phonetics and Phonology, hosted by the University of Trier, Germany.