“Okie dokie, here’s the no-cap truth!”: Everyday Russian Youth Speech in Corpus Representation (Structure and Application of the ESC Sound Corpus)

The article focuses on the creation and potential applications of the Everyday Student Conversations Russian speech corpus (ESC corpus), referred to as KURS orpus in Russian.The corpus is being developed based on a modified methodology of the "one day of speech" recording approach, adopted from the ORD Corpus, with an emphasis on capturing contemporary youth speech.The article highlights the key aspects of the corpus creation process, with special attention to its structure, data collection and processing methodology, as well as the functionality of the corpus online demo version.The primary aim of the project is to explore linguistic changes in the youth environment, create a resource for scientific and applied research, and develop a big data collection of everyday speech for machine learning and advanced artificial intelligence systems.For linguists, the corpus offers unique opportunities to study sociolinguistic, pragmatic, and phonetic features of speech, making it a valuable tool for analyzing contemporary discourse.