SpiCE: Speech in Cantonese and English

This is the Speech in Cantonese and English (SpiCE) corpus. SpiCE is an audio corpus of conversational Cantonese-English bilingual speech recorded in Vancouver, Canada during 2018-2020. The corpus includes high-quality recordings of 34 early bilinguals in both English and Cantonese. Participants completed a sentence reading task, storyboard narration, and conversational interview in each language. These different speech tasks are available in a single audio file for each language for each talker. A Praat textgrid file accompanies each audio file. The textgrids provide hand-corrected orthographic transcription and phoneme-level forced-alignment in Cantonese and English. As an open-access language resource, SpiCE will promote bilingualism research for a typologically distinct pair of languages, of which Cantonese remains understudied despite there being millions of speakers around the world. The SpiCE corpus is especially well-suited for phonetic research on conversational speech, and enables researchers to study cross-language within-speaker phenomena for a diverse group of early Cantonese-English bilinguals. These are areas with few existing high-quality resources. Corpus documentation is available at: https://spice-corpus.readthedocs.io/.本数据集为粤英双语口语语料库（Speech in Cantonese and English，简称SpiCE）。SpiCE是2018至2020年间于加拿大温哥华录制的会话式粤英双语口语音频语料库。本语料库收录了34名早期双语者的高质量英语及粤语口语录音。所有受试者均完成了两种语言下的句子朗读任务、故事板叙事任务以及会话访谈任务。针对每位受试者的每种语言，其所有不同口语任务的录音均整合于单个音频文件中。每个音频文件均配套对应的Praat文本格文件。该文本格文件包含经人工校正的粤英双语正字法转写内容，以及音素级强制对齐标注。作为一款开放获取的语言资源，SpiCE将推动针对一对类型学特征差异显著的语言的双语研究——尽管全球范围内粤语使用者数以百万计，但针对该语言的相关研究仍较为匮乏。SpiCE语料库尤其适用于会话口语的语音学研究，同时可支持研究者针对多样化的早期粤英双语者群体开展跨语言说话者内现象研究。此前针对上述研究方向的高质量语料资源仍较为稀缺。该语料库的相关文档可通过以下链接获取：https://spice-corpus.readthedocs.io/。