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 Resources for [*Simple Speech Representation Learning from Perceptual Data*](https://github.com/Sleepwalking/prometheus-spark/blob/master/writings/simple-speech-representation-perceptual-data-hua-2019.pdf).
 
-This database contains 3200 pairs (2700 for training and 500 for testing) of phonemes whose perceived similarity is rated by workers on Amazon Mechnical Turk. Each pair is rated by 5 workers on a 1-to-5 discrete opinion scale.
+This database contains 3200 pairs (2700 for training and 500 for testing) of phonemes whose perceived similarity is rated by workers at Amazon Mechanical Turk. Each pair is rated by 5 workers on a 1-to-5 discrete opinion scale.
 
 There is also a smaller database (screening set) with only 61 token pairs but each rated by 25 workers.
 
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 This database ("*turksfeat*") is made available under the Open Database License: [http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/](http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/). Any rights in individual contents of the database are licensed under the Database Contents License: [http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/dbcl/1.0/](http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/dbcl/1.0/).
 
-In short: attribution and share-alike.
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+In short: attribution and share-alike.