WYRED

The West Yorkshire Regional English Database (WYRED) will become the largest spoken corpora of forensically-realistic Northern British English accents.

[WYRED @WYRED_Project]

We only went and [finally] did it!!!!

Final participants have just left our booth. Thank you to all 180 #Bradford, #Wakefield, & #Kirklees participants and to those that helped to spread the word.

@PhoneticsErica @Kate_811 @SulaRoss @WeLoveResearch @HuddLinguistics

[WYRED @WYRED_Project]

@SulaRoss @IAFPAtweets Amazing!

[Sula Ross @SulaRoss]

6 presentations, 3 packaged talks, and 2 posters at #IAFPA2021 referencing the use of the @WYRED_Project database!

Throwback to 3yrs of happy memories with @PhoneticsErica & @Kate_811 at @HuddLinguistics.
Making seemingly never-ending data collection worth it! #skybluevwbeetle

[WYRED @WYRED_Project]

Lovely to see our data in use @aegpvr as part of the @ESRC funded @ivipproject!

#voice #phonetics #forensicphonetics

[IVIP @ivipproject]

Our RA @aegpvr is presenting a poster on IVIP findings at the @CamLangsci #ECR2021 symposium today!

“Voice parade parameters: investigating the effect of parade size and voice sample duration on earwitness identification accuracy”

https://t.co/9w5ZmADsai

[WYRED @WYRED_Project]

@omniaabdo_Ph We really hope so Omnia! There is a lot of data with Praat Textgrids (orthographic transcription) for each sound file. 180 participants over four separate speaking tasks. All studio quality! Thank you for the rt!

[Babel: The Language Magazine @Babelzine]

Learn all about @WYRED_Project in the new issue of Babel - https://t.co/WkLmw08Ccg

[WYRED @WYRED_Project]

Woohoo! Put on your headphones, Praat at the ready... @WYRED_Project is ready and waiting. Please do tag us if you find our data useful. 4 years of data collection - we would love to see how it is being used!

[Erica Gold @SocioPhonErica]

Exciting news - WYRED is now available on the U.K. Data Service! Go here to download: https://t.co/dQPPadoAnA

[Erica Gold @SocioPhonErica]

Any students having difficulty gathering data for dissertations or projects during the lockdown, please get in touch. I would be happy to share some @WYRED_Project data if you would like to look at West Yorkshire (UK) speech!

[WYRED @WYRED_Project]

And that's a wrap!

180 participants, 1080 sound files, 720 orthographic transcriptions, one @UKDataService submission later... And the @WYRED_Project is complete. Thank you for the funding @ESRC. Our data will be free and available to use!

*Photo post #iafpa2018 back in July*

[WYRED @WYRED_Project]

This month, @WYRED_Project turned 4. Enjoy our first week logo doodles!

4 years on we're pleased to announce that we recorded all 180 participants!

Our database is FREE for research purposes. #phonetics #forensicphonetics #sociolinguistics #speech #accent #variation

[WYRED @WYRED_Project]

7 identified as being from Wakefield #wyredbynumbers

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Participants were asked how they regionally identified - 51 participants identified as British. #wyredbynumbers

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11 identified as being from (specifically) Huddersfield #wyredbynumbers

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19 identified as being from Bradford #wyredbynumbers

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24 identified as English #wyredbynumbers

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26 identified as West Yorkshire #wyredbynumbers

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42 identified as Yorkshire #wyredbynumbers

[Fransina Stradling @f_stradling]

Looking forward to the start of this term's @HuddLinguistics seminar series with @WrightDW coming Wednesday! His talk about the linguistics of street harassment is free to attend and open to everyone. See you there!

@mhmhudds @ntuhum #forensiclinguistics #harassment

[WYRED @WYRED_Project]

Task 4 is also recorded over a telephone answering machine #wyredbynumbers

[WYRED @WYRED_Project]

Participants were recorded in four different speaking tasks. Two in the first session and two in the second session. #wyredbynumbers

[WYRED @WYRED_Project]

Task 2 was also recorded in telephone quality (using an intercept) #wyredbynumbers

[WYRED @WYRED_Project]

All four tasks are recorded in studio quality #wyredbynumbers