FluencyBank

Data Access Levels

FluencyBank data is available through these three access levels, as defined by NIH's Office of Data Science Strategy (ODSS):

1. Open access: The web pages at https://fluency.talkbank.org are open access, as are the analysis programs at https://talkbank.org such as CLAN, Chatter, and Batchalign.
2. Registration required: As listed at https://talkbank.org/fluency/access/index.html, ten FluencyBank corpora are available on this level. These corpora are open to all researchers and clinicians, but users need to sign in and register. To do this, users provide their email and create a password. They then receive an email message asking them to confirm registration.
3. Controlled access: Based on IRB restrictions, access to six corpora in FluencyBank is limited to registered established researchers who send a request for FluencyBank controlled access in which they verify their institutional status and agree to follow the TalkBank Ground Rules at https://talkbank.org/0share/index.html. If these established researchers require access for their students, we provide them access for a specified period of time that is less than one year. We use the TalkBank AdminView system at https://sla2.talkbank.org/AdminView to control access. The creation of the AdminView system was funded by a FAIR grant in 2023 from ODSS.