VOICE thanks

Building a corpus of spoken ELF would not be possible without the help of a large number of individuals and institutions who give us the opportunity to record their daily ELF conversations. While we cannot thank everybody in person - for reasons of feasibility as well as confidentiality - the following institutions have agreed to be mentioned here. We would like to express our thanks to them and also to all others who are not listed here but have kindly supported our data gathering:

Bundesministerium für soziale Sicherheit, Generationen und Konsumentenschutz - Bereich Jugend (www.jugend.bmsk.gv.at)
Central European Seminar (CES)
European Youth Forum (www.youthforum.org)
Innovationszentrum Universität Wien - Sommerhochschule (www.univie.ac.at/sommerhochschule)
Innovationszentrum Universität Wien Sprachenzentrum (Sprachenzentrum)
Institutional Network of the UNIversities from the CApitals of Europe (UNICA)
Österreichische Bundesjugendvertretung (www.jugendvertretung.at)
Taste The Language (www.tastethelanguage.net)
UNICA Student Conference, Paris 2006 (www.unicainparis.fr)
Zentrale Mediathek der Europäischen Kommission (http://ec.europa.eu/avservices/)

In the pilot phase before its establishment as an FWF project, VOICE benefited from the support of a number of academic colleagues:

Guy Aston, University of Bologna
Guy Cook, Open University (then University of Reading)
Jennifer Jenkins, University of Southampton (then King's College London)
Juliane House, University of Hamburg
Peter Trudgill, University of Fribourg (now Emeritus)
Henry Widdowson, University of Vienna

We would like to thank them here for their inspiration and advice, and for their belief in the project in those early days.

Furthermore, we would like to acknowledge the following institutions who helped the VOICE project by providing knowledge and tools:

Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) (http://www.tei-c.org) and all individuals involved in the creation of the TEI Guidelines
Acoustics Research Institute (www.kfs.oeaw.ac.at), for providing the software package STx