Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC)

The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) is a nonprofit organization that gathers, creates, and shares language data—such as speech recordings, text, and annotations—to support research in linguistics, language technology, and artificial intelligence. It collaborates with universities, government agencies, and industry to develop resources that enable the creation of better speech recognition, translation, and other language-based systems. Essentially, the LDC provides essential linguistic datasets that help advance how machines understand and process human language, fostering innovation and research in the field.