The PF STAR Children’s
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This paper describes the corpus of recordings of children’s speech which was collected as part of the EU FP5 PF STAR project. The corpus contains more than 60 hours of speech, including read and imitated native-language speech in British English, German and Swedish, read and imitated non-nativelanguage English speech from German, Italian and Swedish children, and native-language spontaneous and emotional speech in English and German.
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