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HomeBank: An Online Repository of Daylong Child-Centered Audio Recordings.

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VanDam, M; Warlaumont, AS; Bergelson, E; Cristia, A; Soderstrom, M; De Palma, P; MacWhinney, B
Published in: Seminars in speech and language
May 2016

HomeBank is introduced here. It is a public, permanent, extensible, online database of daylong audio recorded in naturalistic environments. HomeBank serves two primary purposes. First, it is a repository for raw audio and associated files: one database requires special permissions, and another redacted database allows unrestricted public access. Associated files include metadata such as participant demographics and clinical diagnostics, automated annotations, and human-generated transcriptions and annotations. Many recordings use the child-perspective LENA recorders (LENA Research Foundation, Boulder, Colorado, United States), but various recordings and metadata can be accommodated. The HomeBank database can have both vetted and unvetted recordings, with different levels of accessibility. Additionally, HomeBank is an open repository for processing and analysis tools for HomeBank or similar data sets. HomeBank is flexible for users and contributors, making primary data available to researchers, especially those in child development, linguistics, and audio engineering. HomeBank facilitates researchers' access to large-scale data and tools, linking the acoustic, auditory, and linguistic characteristics of children's environments with a variety of variables including socioeconomic status, family characteristics, language trajectories, and disorders. Automated processing applied to daylong home audio recordings is now becoming widely used in early intervention initiatives, helping parents to provide richer speech input to at-risk children.

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Seminars in speech and language

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1098-9056

ISSN

0734-0478

Publication Date

May 2016

Volume

37

Issue

2

Start / End Page

128 / 142

Related Subject Headings

  • Video Recording
  • Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology
  • Speech
  • Parents
  • Language Disorders
  • Language Development
  • Language
  • Humans
  • Databases, Factual
  • Child
 

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VanDam, M., Warlaumont, A. S., Bergelson, E., Cristia, A., Soderstrom, M., De Palma, P., & MacWhinney, B. (2016). HomeBank: An Online Repository of Daylong Child-Centered Audio Recordings. Seminars in Speech and Language, 37(2), 128–142. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0036-1580745
VanDam, Mark, Anne S. Warlaumont, Elika Bergelson, Alejandrina Cristia, Melanie Soderstrom, Paul De Palma, and Brian MacWhinney. “HomeBank: An Online Repository of Daylong Child-Centered Audio Recordings.Seminars in Speech and Language 37, no. 2 (May 2016): 128–42. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0036-1580745.
VanDam M, Warlaumont AS, Bergelson E, Cristia A, Soderstrom M, De Palma P, et al. HomeBank: An Online Repository of Daylong Child-Centered Audio Recordings. Seminars in speech and language. 2016 May;37(2):128–42.
VanDam, Mark, et al. “HomeBank: An Online Repository of Daylong Child-Centered Audio Recordings.Seminars in Speech and Language, vol. 37, no. 2, May 2016, pp. 128–42. Epmc, doi:10.1055/s-0036-1580745.
VanDam M, Warlaumont AS, Bergelson E, Cristia A, Soderstrom M, De Palma P, MacWhinney B. HomeBank: An Online Repository of Daylong Child-Centered Audio Recordings. Seminars in speech and language. 2016 May;37(2):128–142.
Journal cover image

Published In

Seminars in speech and language

DOI

EISSN

1098-9056

ISSN

0734-0478

Publication Date

May 2016

Volume

37

Issue

2

Start / End Page

128 / 142

Related Subject Headings

  • Video Recording
  • Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology
  • Speech
  • Parents
  • Language Disorders
  • Language Development
  • Language
  • Humans
  • Databases, Factual
  • Child