Creating an Aligned Corpus of Sound and Text: The Multimodal Corpus of Shakespeare and Milton

TL;DR

This paper introduces a multimodal corpus of Shakespeare and Milton poems, aligned with audio and phonetic details, enabling advanced linguistic and literary analysis.

Contribution

It presents a novel aligned corpus of classical poetry with detailed audio, phonetic, and scansion annotations, along with a visualization platform.

Findings

Aligned lines with audio at multiple levels

Includes phonetic and scansion annotations

Provides a visualization platform

Abstract

In this work we present a corpus of poems by William Shakespeare and John Milton that have been enriched with readings from the public domain. We have aligned all the lines with their respective audio segments, at the line, word, syllable and phone level, and we have included their scansion. We make a basic visualization platform for these poems and we conclude by conjecturing possible future directions.