Abstract

Abstract The Oral Language Archive is a project underway at Carnegie Mellon University to create a centralized database of digitized sound accessible from distributed personal computers for the study of foreign languages. In addition to the sounds themselves, OLA is comprised of the tools to manage and distribute those sounds. This combination of information, and the tools to access interactively that information, constitute a unique attempt to provide a universal structure to describe, categorize and listen to all major languages via a single access system. That is, the OLA user will be able to listen to hours of Japanese, French and Russian dialogues of varying complexity from their personal computer using a single application.

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