Corpora: New Corpora from the LDC

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Date: Tue Jan 15 2002 - 19:53:57 MET

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          * Speech in Noisy Environments 2 (SPINE2) Part 3 Audio *

       * Speech in Noisy Environments 2 (SPINE2) Part 3 Transcripts *

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    The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) is pleased to announce the
    availability of two corpora which supported the second Speech in Noisy
    Environments (SPINE2) evaluation. SPINE2 provides 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. More
    information on this SPINE evaluation is available at:

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

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    Speech in Noisy Environments (SPINE2) Part 3 Audio is a three CD-ROM
    publication. This release, which contains the evaluation data, consists
    of 2 talker pairs (4 speakers total) with 32 conversations (sessions)
    per talker pair (64 conversations total). Further information is
    available at:

    http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/LDC2001S08.html

    Institutions that have membership in the LDC during the 2001 or 2002
    Membership Years will be able to receive this corpus free of charge.
    Nonmembers may purchase this publication for $600.

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    Speech in Noisy Environments 2 (SPINE2) Part 3 Transcripts is an ftp
    file containing the text portion of the audio release. An example
    transcript can be accessed by visiting:

    http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/LDC2001T09.html

    Institutions that have membership in the LDC during the 2001 or 2002
    Membership Year will be able to receive this corpus free of charge.
    Nonmembers may purchase this publication for $200.

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



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