Alex Selman invited me to join the PronSIG group - so here we are!

We have submitted a proposal to IATEFL 2009 outlining the Dynamic Speech Corpus
we are
currently developing (still early stages!) at DIT. Alex seems to like the idea
... so it can't be
going too far in the wrong direction!?!

The project is a commercially sensitive one (funder: Enterprise Ireland), but
I'm willing to
outline its main aims and would welcome feedback from anyone interested in
corpora aimed
primarily at learners - though certainly not excluding authors and researchers!

We should know by the end of the month whether our proposal was accepted by the
IATEFL
selection committee and then I would be in a position to post the abstract for
general
comments.

In the interim - a big hello from Dublin!

DFC