This archive contains audio recordings for the Multi-CAST Persian corpus (Adibifar 2016), originally published in June 2016 with version 1606 of the Multi-CAST collection (Haig & Schnell 2015). The annotation and documentation files accompanying these files have been archived separately. The recordings are available as WAV and MP3 files.

Persian [tehr1242] is an Iranian language with official variants spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, and parts of Tajikistan; the variety spoken in Iran is also referred to as Farsi.

The texts in this corpus are narrative retellings of the Pear film (Chafe 1980), a roughly five minute-long short film about a boy stealing the fruit a man had been picking. The recordings were made by Shirin Adibifar in Tehran and locations in the province of Mazandaran in 2015. Of the 29 speakers in this corpus, 17 are female and 12 male. The median age is 25, with a range of 20 to 39. All speakers have received at least some measure of university-level education.

Citation
Adibifar, Shirin. 2016. Multi-CAST Persian. In Haig, Geoffrey & Schnell, Stefan (eds.), Multi-CAST: Multilingual corpus of annotated spoken texts. [version of the annotations used]. Bamberg: University of Bamberg.

References
Chafe, Wallace. 1980. The deployment of consciousness in the production of a narrative. In Chafe, Wallace (ed.), The Pear Stories: Cognitive, cultural, and linguistic aspects of narrative production, 9–50. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
Haig, Geoffrey & Schnell, Stefan (eds.). 2015. Multi-CAST: Multilingual corpus of annotated spoken texts. [version]. Bamberg: University of Bamberg.