Chat on the phone to support scientific research and earn a chance to win

Chat on the phone to support scientific research and earn a chance to win

$1000!

The Linguistic Data Consortium at the University of Pennsylvania

(www.ldc.upenn.edu) needs participants for FISHER, a new telephone speech

study to be conducted in the Early Winter 2002-2003. FISHER is open to all

fluent speakers of English, native and non-native alike. In contrast to

our prior regional telephone studies (Switchboard), FISHER will cover the

entire US. The FISHER project will support linguistic research, technology

development and education. All calls will be recorded for these purposes

and we will keep participant identities strictly confidential.

FISHER participants will take part in 1 to 3 telephone calls talking for

ten minutes to other participants on suggested topics. FISHER topics can

be found at the URL below:

http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Projects/EARS/Fisher/topics.html

A robot operator will initiate all calls. Participants need only answer their

phones at the times they specify during the registration process.

Participants will be compensated $10 per call. In addition, for each call

made, participants will be eligible for 1 chance at (3) $1000.00 lottery

prizes.

This study is open to any fluent speaker of English in the US. You need not

be a US citizen to participate. You need only have the ability to answer a

phone in the US. If you know of anyone who might be interested in

contributing a few minutes of their time to support research, we would

greatly appreciate your making them aware of this opportunity.

To register for this study please visit the following page:    

http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Projects/EARS/Fisher/intro.html

or call

1 800 380 PENN to register and for more information

Sincerely,

Dr. David Miller

FISHER Project Manager Received on Wed Jan 15 2003 - 10:35:49 CST