Corpora: New Release from the LDC

From: LDC Office (ldc@ldc.upenn.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 22 2001 - 21:45:22 MET DST

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    The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) is pleased to announce the
    availability of the Speech in Noisy Environments (SPINE) Vo-Coder
    Training Audio.

    http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/LDC2001S99.html

    This eight CD-ROM publication contains the Speech in Noisy Environments
    2 (SPINE2) Training Audio Corpus created for the Department of Defense
    (DoD) Digital Voice Processing Consortium (DDVPC) by Arcon Corp. The
    transcripts for this corpus are available in two LDC publications,
    Speech in Noisy Environments (SPINE1) Training Transcripts LDC2000T49
    and Speech in Noisy Environments (SPINE1) Evaluation Transcripts
    LDC2000T54. For an example transcription please visit:

    http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/desc/addenda/LDC2000T54.html

    This corpus contains a total of 260 files, one "game" each, for a rough
    total of 19 hours and 59 minutes (~4.6 GBytes) of audio data.

    SPINE Vo-Coder Training Audio supports the 2000 and 2001 Speech in Noisy
    Environments (SPINE1 and SPINE2) evaluation. The Second Speech in Noisy
    Environments Evaluation (SPINE2) will provide a continuing forum for
    assessing the state of the art and practice in speech recognition
    technology for noisy military environments and for exchanging
    information on innovative speech recognition technology in the context
    of fully implemented systems that perform realistic tasks.

    The evaluation will provide researchers, potential sponsors, and
    customers with a quantitative means to appreciate the strengths and
    weaknesses of the technologies, and the results reported on will invite
    customer interest in the potential utility of the technologies. More
    information on this evaluation is available from the Naval Research
    Laboratory website by visiting:

    http://elazar.itd.nrl.navy.mil/spine/index.html

    Institutions that have membership in the LDC during the 2001 Membership
    Year will be able to receive this corpus free of charge. Nonmembers may
    purchase this publication for $1600.

    If you would like to order a copy of this corpus, please email your
    request to <ldc@ldc.upenn.edu>. If you need additional information
    before placing your order, or would like to inquire about membership in
    the LDC, please send email or call (215) 573-1275.

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