TalkBank

Recent Updates

Database Updates

• AphasiaBank: curation and linkage of Olness corpus and Group Therapy sessions
• CABank: curation of MICASE corpus; addition of Croatian
• CHILDES: Gelman Quechua; Gelman Narrative; improved MOR grammar for German, English, Spanish, French, and Mandarin and applied to corpora; linkage of Weismer corpus; development of AAE corpus; added media for 12 corpora; Zlatev-Thai; two more children for MPI-EVA-Manchester; Sekali video; three new Frogs corpora; update of Japanese corpora; Bulgarian corpus; linkage to MAIN work
• ClassBank: addition of two corpora from ESL classrooms
• DementiaBank: addition of large WLS longitudinal corpus,
• FluencyBank: curation of IISRP and Purdue corpora; Brejon corpus; Martine Dutch Downs corpus
• HomeBank: DavisKean corpus; Lyon corpus; additions to Warlaumont corpus; deBarbaroCry corpus
• PhonBank: reformatting and curation of 12 corporal; Amorim, Ramalho, and Twins-Brazil corpora; conversion of VBR audio to CBR
• SLABank: two corpora from ESL classrooms; curation of French corpora; IceBase corpus; four L2 Spanish corpora

CLAN and Phon Updates

• CLANc for newer OSX systems now nearly bug free, but Sonic Mode is not yet complete.
• Four new profiling programs have been added to CLAN:
  1. C-NNLA which automates the Northwestern Narrative Language Analysis system in CLAN.
  2. C-QPA which automates the Quantitative Production Analysis system in CLAN.
  3. C-IPSyn which provides an improved version of IPSyn coding by CLAN.
  4. SUGAR a CLAN command to implement the SUGAR analysis.
• Phon 3 with revamped query and reporting systems, built-in analyses, analysis composer, multiple workspace folders, improved phone alignment, and functions for acoustic analysis.

TalkBankDB Updates

• Full password control for accessing all database segments.
• Support for rapid database updating (by system manager) when new corpora are added
• Tagging of update times to allow for easy version control. The user can roll back to a previous version of the database directly in the TalkBankDB interface.
• Analysis of n-grams
• APIs for R and Python. These commands allow you to pull down segments of the database directly in your R or Python interface.

TalkBank Browser Updates

• Browser access based on TalkBankDB
• Full access to all segments of TalkBank
• Collaborative Annotation - coming soon

Initiative Updates

• Collaborative Annotation proposal submitted to NSF HNDS-I
• Collaboration with Databrary and PLAY
• AnnotationBank proposal from Casillas and Frank
• FluencyBank renewal submitted to NIH
• FOQUSAphasia
• ASR: apraxia, diarization, recognition
• Adding links to MRI and fMRI scans in OpenNeuro
• Application for renewal of Core Trust Seal validation .

Outreach Updates

• Proposal to organize a Summer School for TalkBank data and methods
• Presentations at Conferences: ASHA, InterSpeech, IASCL - more needed
• InterSpeech Dementia Recognition Challenge
• CMU-sponsored open-access no-fee journal: Language Development Research

Data-Sharing Issues

• IRB Approval
• Audio identification
• Consent Levels