# CHILDES (Child Language Data Exchange System) as a Gemini Notebook source

> Transcripts and recordings of child-caregiver speech used in language-acquisition research. Transcript files upload as plain-text sources.


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- Site: [childes.talkbank.org](https://childes.talkbank.org)
- Category: Psychology & social science
- Access: free

Transcripts and recordings of child-caregiver speech used in language-acquisition research. Transcript files upload as plain-text sources.

Part of the TalkBank project at Carnegie Mellon, CHILDES holds transcripts of real child-caregiver conversations that linguists have used for decades to study how children acquire language. Uploading actual transcripts gives a notebook primary data instead of a description of findings. Transcripts use CHAT-format annotation codes, so there's a small learning curve to reading them directly.

## Import into Gemini Notebook

1. Copy the link: https://childes.talkbank.org
2. In your notebook, click Add source → Website.
3. Paste the link and confirm — several links can be pasted at once, one per line.

**Tip:** Survey and study sites often gate the raw dataset — the summary report or working-paper PDF is what actually imports as a source.

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