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Planning of Recruitment

The last thing to do before going into the collection phase is the preparation of the speaker recruitment.

Again, the recruiting technique you'll use depends on the kind of speech corpus you're producing and on how much funding you have. You will find general hints from our long experiences with different corpus productions in section [*] (p. [*]). Here is some advice as to why you might need to think about the recruitment way ahead of the start of the collection:

Please also refer to the chapter [*] (p. [*]) for legal advice in the matter of storing speaker information.

It is a good idea to collect data about one's speakers in a database [2], pp. 138:

``Speakers should be thought of as a primary and very valuable resource in speech recordings. It is therefore advisable to build a speaker database which contains for each speaker

The recruitment of speakers should have two goals: provide a sufficient number of speakers for a given speech data collection, and provide sufficient information about the speakers which can be used to build or extend a speaker database.''


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