Re: Corpora: New Release from the LDC

From: Emmanuel CARTIER (tecartie@club-internet.fr)
Date: Sun Mar 21 1999 - 20:25:54 MET

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    LDC Office a écrit:

    > * Switchboard-2 Phase III Audio *
    >
    > The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) is pleased to announce the
    > availability of the Switchboard-2 Phase III Audio. This twenty CD-ROM
    > publication contains audio speech data suitable for research,
    > development, and evaluation of automatic systems in:
    >
    > speech-to-text conversion
    > talker identification
    > language identification
    > speech signal detection
    >
    > The Switchboard-2 Phase III collection focused primarily on the American
    > South. The project's goal was to target native speakers of
    > English in the American South, balanced by gender, to participate in
    > (10+) 5-6 minute conversations on a variety of telephone (land line)
    > handsets. The LDC collected a total of 2,657 calls, or 5,314 sides, from
    > 640 participants (292 Male, 348 Female), under varied environmental
    > conditions.
    >
    > The Switchboard-2 Phase III Audio release contains speech data files
    > only, along with documentation describing speaker information, call
    > information, and audit information. The data files are not compressed.
    >
    > For further information, please visit:
    >
    > http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/LDC2002S06.html
    >
    > Institutions that have membership in the LDC during the 2002 Membership
    > Year will be able to receive this corpus free of charge.
    > Nonmembers may purchase this publication for $4000.
    >
    > *
    >
    > 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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