Introducing the First Module of the Multimedia Corpus of Spoken Kazakh Language
By: Giorgia Troiani and Andrey Filchenko
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.529 | Journal eISSN: 2059-481X
Language: English
Page range: 67 - 67
Submitted on: Feb 26, 2026
Accepted on: Apr 24, 2026
Published on: May 25, 2026
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