Corpora: New Release from the LDC

[Emmanuel CARTIER]

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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 at ldc.upenn.edu> or call (215) 573-1275.
>
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