Multilingual Audio Database of Spoken and Sung Lyrics from Songs in Oral Tradition

The "Multilingual Audio Database of Spoken and Sung Lyrics from Songs in Oral Tradition" collects audio recordings of commonly used words in some of China’s minority languages that refer to music and dance genres and activities. At the moment, the Database includes Yi Central dialect, Northeast Yunnan Miao and Southern Bai dialect. Taking the audio recordings of words used in spoken and sung lyrics as its central point, the Database connects these words to their corresponding written scripts: Chinese, English and International Phonetic Alphabet. The ECura project will include oral music traditions from other ethnic minority groups in the future.