TalkBank

CABank

This page provides an index to TalkBank CA data. The materials referenced here are naturalistic conversations amenable to CA analysis.

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.

The following table first lists CABank corpora and then lists three additional TalkBank corpus collections relevant to CA work.

You can also browse the CABank database online from this link.

Corpus	Description	Contributor	Rating
Bergmann	German emergency phone calls, recorded by Jörg Bergmann.	Johannes Wagner	*****
Bradford	Narrative samples from African American adults from Washington, D.C.	Angela Bradford Wainwright	*
Business	Lingua Franca Business English phone calls.	Johannes Wagner	*****
CABNC	Spoken language segment of the British National Corpus	Saul Albert	*****
CallFriend	Phone calls in Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, and Spanish	Linguistic Data Consortium	**
CallHome	Phone calls in Arabic, Chinese, English, German, Japanese, and Spanish.	Linguistic Data Consortium	**
CLAPI	French conversations from the CLAPI Project.	Lorenza Mondada	*****
CORAAL	Corpus of Regional African American Language	Tyler Kendall and Charlie Farrington	****
CMU	Conversations collected by students at CMU. These can only be used for teaching purposes.	Brian MacWhinney	**
Croatian	Spontaneous informal conversations of adult speakers of different ages in a wide variety of Croatian dialects.	Gordana Hrzica and Jelena Kuvac-Kraljevic	***
Examples	Examples for testing the TalkBank browser.	Johannes Wagner and Brian MacWhinney	***
Garfinkel-Seminars	Lectures by Harold Garfinkel, contributed by Johannes Wagner.	Johannes Wagner	*****
GCSAusE	Australian conversations.	Michael Haugh	*****
Goodwin	CA video	Charles Goodwin	*****
Grimshaw	An hour-long dissertation defense.	Allen Grimshaw	*
GulfWar	Radio call-in show discussions during the first day of the first Gulf War.	Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen	***
Istriot	13 speakers of Istriot	Gordona Hrzica	*
ISL	Conversations recorded to test ASR methods for meeting	Susie Burger	*
JOC	Eight conversations from a special issue of the Journal of Communication.	Curtis LeBaron	*
Mambila	Conversations in Mambila.	David Zeitlyn	**
Mesolex	Mesolex	Jonathan Amith	**
MICASE	Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English	John Swales	***
Mopan	Mopan narratives.	Sotaro Kita	*
MOVIN	Conversations in Danish, German, French, English, and Italian.	Johannes Wagner	***
Nahuatl	Nahuatl story of a shooting.	Jane Hill	***
Sakura	Videotaped conversations of groups of 4 Japanese college students, not yet in CA format.	Susanne Miyata	**
SBCSAE	The Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English. A wide variety of interactional types.	Jack DuBois	****
SCoSE	The Saarbrücken Corpus of Spoken (American) English.	Dennis Norick	*
SPIRE	HCI Design discussions.	Jakob Buur	*
Taiwan Hakka	Conversations and narratives in Taiwan Hakka	Huei-ling Lai	***
Taiwan Mandarin	Conversations in Taiwan Mandarin	Kawai Chui	***
Yiddish	Hassidic Jews in New York speaking Yiddish.	Zelda Newman	**
Yucatec	Story telling in Yucatec Mayan.	John Haviland	**
Jefferson
Lingua Franca	Lingua Franca transcriptions by Gail Jefferson.	Johannes Wagner	*****
Newport Beach	Newport Beach transcriptions by Gail Jefferson.	Johannes Wagner	*****
Poetics	Lecture in Boston in 1977 by Gail Jefferson.	Johannes Wagner	*****
Watergate	Watergate phone call transcriptions by Gail Jefferson.	Johannes Wagner	*****
Aligned	A few NB and Watergate raaw audio passed through ASR	Brian MacWhinney	*
SCOTUS
SCOTUS-Blackmun	Interview with Justice Henry Blackmun	Jerry Goldman	*
SCOTUS-Douglas	Interview with Justice William O. Douglas	Jerry Goldman	*
SCOTUS_Oral_Arguments	Oral arguments in the US Supreme Court. We have 38 years, each in its own .zip archive.	Jerry Goldman	*