Recordings of professional speakers from the public Czech Radio – a source for the research of the Czech pronunciation standards

Abstract

The paper presents the upcoming corpus of records of professional radio speakers (The Corpus of Czech Model Speakers). This corpus of records with their transcriptions will serve as a source for the research of the pronunciation norm in Czech media.

The material has been gained from the audio archives of the Czech Radio, from which records of many radio programmes in a good quality can be downloaded.

Keywords

• corpus
• model speaker
• Czech Radio