US Patent 8700396 Generating speech data collection prompts

This document generally describes computer technologies relating to generating speech data collection prompts, such as textual scripts and/or textual scenarios. Speech data collection prompts for a particular language can be generated based on a variety of factors, including the frequency with which linguistic elements (e.g., phonemes, syllables, words, phrases) in the particular language occur in one or more corpora of textual information associated with the particular language. Textual prompts can also and/or alternatively be generated based on statistics for previously recorded speech data.