This paper presents a current status and activities for spoken language resources for Vietnamese implemented in research institutions such as Institute of Information Technology, Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology, and International Research Center MICA, Hanoi University of Technology. This is our first attempt of a process of building a large Vietnamese speech database and the corpora should be in a common design to make it available for researchers in Vietnamese speech processing. Keywords: Speech corpus, Design of speech corpus, General corpus, Specific corpus, Phonetic structure, Data collection, Recording, Labeling.