Talk on the Phone and Earn Money

Talk on the Phone and Earn Money

[John Malec]

Chat on the phone to support scientific research and earn a chance to win
$1000!

The Linguistic Data Consortium at the University of Pennsylvania
(www.ldc.upenn.edu) needs participants for FISHER, a new telephone speech
study to be conducted in the Early Winter 2002-2003.  FISHER is open to all
fluent speakers of English, native and non-native alike.  In contrast to
our prior regional telephone studies (Switchboard), FISHER will cover the
entire US. The FISHER project will support linguistic research, technology
development and education.  All calls will be recorded for these purposes
and we will keep participant identities strictly confidential.

FISHER participants will take part in 1 to 3 telephone calls talking for
ten minutes to other participants on suggested topics.  FISHER topics can
be found at the URL below:

http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Projects/EARS/Fisher/topics.html

A robot operator will initiate all calls. Participants need only answer their
phones at the times they specify during the registration process.

Participants will be compensated $10 per call.  In addition, for each call
made, participants will be eligible for 1 chance at (3) $1000.00 lottery
prizes.

This study is open to any fluent speaker of English in the US. You need not
be a US citizen to participate.  You need only have the ability to answer a
phone in the US.  If you know of anyone who might be interested in
contributing a few minutes of their time to support research, we would
greatly appreciate your making them aware of this opportunity.

To register for this study please visit the following page:
   
http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Projects/EARS/Fisher/intro.html

or call

1 800 380 PENN

to register and for more information

Sincerely,

Dr. David Miller
FISHER Project Manager