Linguistics and Modern Languages: Image / Sound Databases

Alexander Street allows users to cross-search three video collections published by Alexader Street Press: Counseling & Therapy in Video, Opera in Video, and Theatre in Video.

LDC-Online offers access to the text and speech corpora of the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC). LDC Corpus Search includes newstext in Arabic, Chinese and English, and English telephone conversations. American English Spoken Lexicon includes audio files for more than 50,000 words extracted from newswire and telephone conversation. Users can search by alphabetical browsing, orthography or phonetic transcription.

Access spoken word of 1,300 audiobooks for classic novels, plays and poetry, from medieval times to the twentieth century. Includes 21 categories, from children's classic, classic fiction, to Shakespeare's plays, music education, etc.

Coverage: 1930s - 20th century
500+ hours of streaming video of more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries.