This archive contains audio recordings for the Multi-CAST Mandarin corpus (Vollmer 2020), originally published in January 2020 with version 2001 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 The annotation and documentation files accompanying these files have been archived separately.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.

The Multi-CAST Mandarin (Modern Standard Mandarin) [mand1415] corpus consists of traditional narratives from three native speakers of Mandarin. They were recorded in Xī'ān, PRC, by Maria Vollmer during an exchange semester in 2015 and 2016. Two of the speakers are originally from Northeast China (Dōngběi), the third hails from Xī'ān.

The stories were transcribed by Liu Ruoyu in 2016 and 2017 under the supervision of Maria Vollmer, and subsequently translated, glossed, and annotated with GRAID between 2016 and 2019 by Maria Vollmer. Annotations with RefIND and ISNRef were added by Maria Vollmer and Adrian Kuqi in 2019. Further stories have been recorded and transcribed and will be added to the corpus in the future.

Citation
Vollmer, Maria. 2020. Multi-CAST Mandarin. In Haig, Geoffrey & Schnell, Stefan (eds.), Multi-CAST: Multilingual corpus of annotated spoken texts. [version of the annotations used]. Bamberg: University of Bamberg.

References
Haig, Geoffrey & Schnell, Stefan (eds.). 2015. Multi-CAST: Multilingual corpus of annotated spoken texts. [version]. Bamberg: University of Bamberg.