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Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English
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The Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English
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The following is a complete listing of the 60 discourse segments published in Parts 1-4 of the Santa Barbara Corpus of American English. For each segment identification number (e.g. SBC001), the corresponding transcription file includes the extension “.trn,” yielding SBC001.trn. The corresponding audio file includes the extension “.wav,” yielding SBC001.wav. Transcription files are in plain text format (ASCII), while audio files are in WAV format (for details, see Recordings).

List of discourse segments:
[1] Numerically by filename
[2] Alphabetically by title

Numerically by Filename

Part 1
SBC001 Actual Blacksmithing
SBC002 Lambada
SBC003 Conceptual Pesticides
SBC004 Raging Bureaucracy
SBC005 A Book about Death
SBC006 Cuz
SBC007 A Tree’s Life
SBC008 Tell the Jury That
SBC009 Zero Equals Zero
SBC010 Letter of Concern
SBC011 This Retirement Bit
SBC012 American Democracy is Dying
SBC013 Appease the Monster
SBC014 Bank Products
Part 2
SBC015 Deadly Diseases
SBC016 Tape Deck
SBC017 Wonderful Abstract Notions
SBC018 Vet Morning
SBC019 Doesn’t Work in This Household
SBC020 God’s Love
SBC021 Fear
SBC022 Runway Heading
SBC023 Howard’s End
SBC024 Risk
SBC025 The Egg Which Luther Hatched
SBC026 Hundred Million Dollars
SBC027 Atoms Hanging Out
SBC028 Hey Cutie-Pie
SBC029 Ancient Furnace
SBC030 Vision
Part 3
SBC031 Tastes Very Special
SBC032 Handshakes All Around
SBC033 Guilt
SBC034 What Time is it Now?
SBC035 Hold My Breath
SBC036 Judgmental on People
SBC037 Very Good Tamales
SBC038 Good Strong Dam
SBC039 Pretty Busy Bird
SBC040 Beaten on a Regular Basis
SBC041 X Units of Insulin
SBC042 Stay Out of It
SBC043 Try a Couple Spoonfuls
SBC044 He Knows
SBC045 The Classic Hooker
SBC046 Flumpity-Bump Down the Hill
Part 4
SBC047 On the Lot
SBC048 Mickey Mouse Watch
SBC049 Noise Pollution
SBC050 Just Wanna Hang
SBC051 New Yorkers Anonymous
SBC052 Oh You Need a Breadbox
SBC053 I Will Appeal
SBC054 'That's Good', Said Tiger
SBC055 The Mama of Dada
SBC056 What is a Brand Inspection?
SBC057 Throw Me
SBC058 Swingin' Kid
SBC059 You Baked
SBC060 Shaggy Dog Story