Corpora: LDC/CMU Kids Speech Corpus now available to non-LDC-members

[James P. Salsman]

Good news!  The LDC/CMU Kids Speech Corpus, which was formerly
available only with an LDC membership costing thousands of dollars,
is now available for USD $230.  I received my copy today.

The Kids Corpus consists of recordings and prompting text of
grade-school children attempting to read unfamiliar texts.
It is more fully described at:

  http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/ldc/news/release/kids.html

  http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/LDC97S63.html

The purchase instructions are below.

Cheers,
James

> Subject: Kids Corpus
> From: LDC Office <ldc at unagi.cis.upenn.edu>
>
> James,
>
> We have received the signed contract from Weekly Reader.
>
> The non-member cost of the Kids Corpus is US$200 plus $30
> shipping and handling.  I can send the corpus as soon as I
> receive payment or an institutional purchase order and signed
> Kids agreement.  This agreement can be retrieved from the
> agreements page on our World Wide Web site:
>
>   http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/nonmem_agree/kids_org.html
>
> Payment can be made one of three ways:
>
> 	1.  with a check from a bank with branches in the United
> 	    States.
> 	For credit to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania.
>
> 	2.  with a wire to:
>
> 	Mellon Bank East
> 	ABA NO. 031000037
> 	Philadelphia, PA
> 	For credit to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
> 	Account No. 2-523-694
>
> 	Attn:  Sonja Jones
> 	       573-1275
> 	
> 	SWIFT CODE:  MELNUS3P
> 	
> 	3.  with Visa or MasterCard.
> 	Please provide the following:
> 	
> 	Type of credit card
> 	credit card number
> 	expiration date
> 	credit card billing address
>
> Best regards,
>
> Shannon Wadlington
> Manager, Intellectual Property Rights and Membership
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