Dataset
Text-only English dataset of transcribed spontaneous speech, consisting of the following portions from the following works:
CHILDES (8M tokens) by MacWhinney (2000)
BNC Spoken (2.2M tokens)
Switchboard (1.9M tokens) by Godfrey et al. (1992)
CallHome (0.32M tokens) by Canavan et al. (1997)
CallFriend (0.07M tokens) by Canavan et al. (1019 and 2020)
Total 12.5M tokens (approximately 10M words)
The portions from CHILDES, BNC Spoken and Switchboard were distributed by the BabyLM committee as part of the training data of the challenge, while CallHome and CallFriend were taken from TalkBank
References
Canavan, Alexandra, David Graff, and George Zipperlen (1997). CALLHOME American English Speech. Web Download. LDC97S42. Philadelphia.
Canavan, Alexandra, George Zipperlen, and John Bartlett (2019). CALLFRIEND American English — Non-Southern Dialect, Second Edition. Web Download. LDC2019S21. Philadelphia.
Canavan, Alexandra, George Zipperlen, and John Bartlett (2020). CALLFRIEND American English — Southern Dialect, Second Edition. Web Download. LDC2020S08. Philadelphia.
Godfrey, John J., Edward C. Holliman, and Jane McDaniel (1992). “SWITCHBOARD: telephone speech corpus for research and development”. In: Proceedings of the 1992 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Volume 1. ICASSP’92. San Francisco, California: IEEE Computer Society, pp. 517–520. isbn: 0780305329.
MacWhinney, Brian (2000). The CHILDES project: The database. Vol. 2. Psychology Press.