The BASE corpus functions as a companion to the Michigan Corpus of Spoken Academic English (MICASE), although unlike MICASE it does not include speech events other than lectures and seminars, and the majority of the events are recorded as video rather than audio files.
It also functions as a companion to the British Academic Written English (BAWE) corpus.
The BASE corpus has been used for materials development projects at Warwick and at Reading, in particular the Essential Academic Skills in English (EASE) series of multimedia cd-roms.
The Coventry research team is currently developing a new corpus of spoken academic English, The Engineering Lecture Corpus (ELC)