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The collections of spoken language in the Accentological and Spoken corpora have been expanded. The additions include recordings of lectures, television programs, radio and TV interviews, as well as a large collection of literary prose readings. The regional collections have been supplemented with recordings of conversations based on documentary films from the series "Letters from the Province", samples of everyday conversational speech collected by students of Voronezh State University and the Kazakhstan Branch of Lomonosov Moscow State University, materials from folklore expeditions, and interviews collected as part of a project on the history of everyday life in Karelia. The total size of the update is approximately 300,000 word tokens.
The Spoken Corpus now features more than 15 million word tokens, while the total size of the Accentological Corpus, including naive poetry, amounts to 136.6 million word tokens.