This page provides an index to TalkBank CA data. These files include both traditional CA ("Heritage") transcripts and transcripts in the newer CA/CHAT format. All of the materials referenced here are naturalistic conversations amenable to CA analysis. To download the corpus, click on the link in the Corpus column. To download the media, click on the link in the Media column.
We use stars to rate the extent to which the transcripts capture detailed conversational phenomena. Transcripts with only one star have not yet been transcribed in CA, but include interesting materials that could eventually be transcribed in CA format.
| Corpus | Description | Media | Rating |
| SamtaleBank | Danish CA corpora from a variety of formats | SamtaleBank | ***** |
| CallFriend | Phone calls in English, Spanish, French, and Japanese | CallFriend | ** |
| Jefferson | Classic transcriptions by Gail Jefferson, along with newer Watergate materials. Password protected with access available from jwa@sdu.dk | Jefferson | ***** |
| SBCSAE | The Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English. A wide variety of interactional types. | SBCSAE | **** |
| GulfWar | Radio call-in show discussions during the first day of the first Gulf War | GulfWar | *** |
| Sakura | Videotaped conversations of groups of 4 Japanese college students, not yet in CA format | Sakura | *** |
| SCoSE | The Stuttgart Corpus of Spoken (American) English | SCoSe | * |
| JOC | Eight conversations from a special issue of the Journal of Communication | JOC | * |
| MOVIN | Conversations in Danish, German, French, English, and Italian | MOVIN | *** |
| ClassBank | A wide variety of videotaped classroom lessons and work group interactions | ClassBank | * |
| CMU | Conversations collected by students at CMU. These can only be used for teaching purposes. | CMU | * |
| Grimshaw | An hour-long dissertation defense | Grimshaw | * |
| LIDES | Six corpora from multilingual groups engaged in code-switching. | LIDES | ** |