Corpora: New Corpora from the LDC

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  ***  Speech in Noisy Environments 2(SPINE2) Part 1 Audio  ***

***  Speech in Noisy Environments 2(SPINE2) Part 1 Transcripts  ***

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

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



     ***  New Price Reduction for TIPSTER, Volumes 1-3 ***


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The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) is pleased to announce the
availability of four corpora which support 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 1 Audio is a three CD-ROM
publication.  This release, which contains the training 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/LDC2001S04.html


Institutions that have membership in the LDC during the 2001
Membership Year 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 1 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/LDC2001T05.html


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


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Speech in Noisy Environments (SPINE2) Part 2 Audio is a three CD-ROM
publication.  This release, which contains the development data,
consists of 2 talker pairs (4 speakers total) with 16 conversations
(sessions) per talker pair (32 conversations total). Further information
is available at:

http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/LDC2001S06.html


Institutions that have membership in the LDC during the 2001
Membership Year 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 (SPINE2) Part 2 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/LDC2001T07.html


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


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The LDC would like to announce the recent price reduction for TIPSTER,
Volumes 1-3.

Each volume can be purchased for $100; the complete collection is
available for $250.  For additional information, please visit our online
catalog at:

http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/LDC93T3A.html


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