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Franziska Braun
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Technische Hochschule, Nürnberg
franziska.braun@th-nuernberg.de
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Korbinian Riedhammer
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Technische Hochschule, Nürnberg
korbinian.riedhammer@th-nuernberg.de
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| Participants: | 208 |
| Type of Study: | naturalistic |
| Location: | Germany |
| Media type: | audio |
Browsable transcripts
Download transcripts
Media folder
Citation information
Braun, F., Witzl, C., Hönig, F., Nöth, E., Bocklet, T., & Riedhammer, K.
(2026). The PARLO Dementia Corpus: A German Multi-Center Resource for
Alzheimer's Disease. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources
and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026), pages 9581–9591, Palma, Mallorca,
Spain. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
pdf here
Project Description
The **PARLO Dementia Corpus (PDC)** is a German multi-center clinical
speech corpus collected at nine academic memory clinics. This release
provides the recordings as audio (`wav/`), manual professional
transcripts (`transcripts/`), and CLAN/CHAT files with word-level
time alignments (`CHAT/`). The raw forced-alignment word tables are
also included under `alignments/`.
Recording used an iPad-based protocol with eight speech tasks.
Participants included 83 healthy controls, 59 MCI, and 66 AD.
File names have participant ID and task name.
Further information is in this readme file
Metadata described in the readme.txt are in this file.
Tasks included
- story_reading => reading; reading aloud of the subway story
- story_recall => recall; recall of the subway story
- boston_naming => boston; confrontation naming BNT
- animal_naming => animal; semantic fluency 60s animals
- picture_description => pictdes; description of mountain scene
- picture_recall => pictrecall; delayed recall of the mountain scene
- pataka_repetition => pataka; 10s of pataka
- sischafu_repetition => sischafu; 10s of sischafu
The word-repetition recordings have professional transcripts, but no alignments or chat files.