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From: Magali Duclaux (duclaux@elda.fr)
Date: Wed Aug 01 2001 - 10:50:46 MET DST

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    ELRA
    European Language Resources Association
    ELRA News
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    We are happy to announce new resources available via ELRA:

    ELRA S0111 Logotypografia database - Eleftherotypia Journal speech
    database
    ELRA S0112 Persian speech database Farsdat
    ELRA W0027 An-Nahar Newspaper text corpus

    A description of each database is given below:

    ELRA S0111 Logotypografia database - Eleftherotypia Journal speech
    database

    The Eleftherotypia Journal speech database consists of Greek read
    material. It includes the recordings of 120 speakers, male and female,
    for about 72 hours of speech material.

    ELRA S0112 Persian speech database - Farsdat

    The Persian Speech Database comprises the recordings of 300
    native speakers, from 10 different dialect regions of Iran. 6000
    utterances were segmented and labelled, including 386 phonetically
    balanced sentences.

    ELRA W0027 An-Nahar Newspaper text corpus

    The An-Nahar Newspaper Text Corpus comprises articles in Arabic
    (Lebanon) from 1995 to 2000 (6 years) stored as HTML files on
    CDRom media. Each year contains 45 000 articles and 24 million
    words.

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    For further information, please contact:

    ELRA/ELDA
    55-57 rue Brillat-Savarin
    F-75013 Paris, France

    Tél. : +33 01 43 13 33 33
    Fax : +33 01 43 13 33 30

    Email: mapelli@elda.fr

    or consult our catalogue at the following address:
    http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html
    or http://www.elda.fr
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