Aims of the IFA corpus

General phonetics research

• Hand labeled and segmented at the phoneme level
• Speech from several speakers
• Many speaking styles are covered, including "spontaneous" speech
• Overlapping "content", i.e., identical sentences uttered in several styles

Designed to be

• Reusable
• Searchable
• Accessible
• Extendable
• Correctable
• Free(GNU GPL)