Corpora: New Release from the LDC

[Arda Celebi]

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> LDC Office a écrit:
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> >        *    Switchboard-2 Phase III Audio   *
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> > 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:
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> > speech-to-text conversion
> > talker identification
> > language identification
> > speech signal detection
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > For further information, please visit:
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> > http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/LDC2002S06.html
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> > 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.
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> >                           *
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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.
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