Corpus of American Nordic Speech v.3.1

CANS v.3.1 – Corpus of American Nordic Speech – is a speech corpus with speakers from USA and Canada speaking Norwegian and Swedish. Most of the informants learnt to speak their Nordic language as children at home. There are 268 speakers from 63 places in the corpus, all in all more than 774 000 tokens.

CANS v.3.1 contains both conversations and interviews. The transcriptions are both phonetic and orthographic and are linked to audio and video.

CANS v.3.1 includes Norwegian recordings from Janne Bondi Johannessen et al. (2010 – 2016) together with older recordings and transcriptions from Didrik Arup Seip and Ernst W. Selmer (1931), Einar Haugen (1942) and Arnstein Hjelde (1987, 1990, 1992). The Swedish recordings are collected by Ida Larsson et al. (2011 – 2014).