| Challenge: | Until recently, the movement towards large-scale cross-linguistic phonetic research has been limited. |
| Approach: | They propose to use the VoxCommunis Corpus to facilitate cross-linguistic phonetic research . corpus contains acoustic models, pronunciation lexicons, word- and phone-level alignments . |
| Outcome: | The VoxCommunis Corpus contains acoustic models, pronunciation lexicons, word- and phone-level alignments . the corpus is free to download and use under a CC0 license . |
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