US - Anywhere: voices wanted for university telephone research study - get paid to chat!

[Nii O. Martey]

Contribute your voice to 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
speakers of English, native and non-native alike. In contrast to prior US
regional studies (Switchboard), FISHER will be national (North America).
The FISHER project will be undertaken to support linguistic research,
technology development and education. All calls will be recorded for these
purposes. Participant Identities will be kept strictly confidential and not
released with the data.

FISHER participants will take part in 1 to 3 telephone calls talking to
other participants on suggested topics for ten minutes. 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 time 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 anyone 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 their voice
to LDC research, we would also be appreciative if you could make them aware
of this opportunity.

To register for this study please see 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

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