18.183, FYI: ELRA LR Distribution Agreement

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LINGUIST List: Vol-18-183. Thu Jan 18 2007. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 18.183, FYI: ELRA LR Distribution Agreement

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Date: 18-Jan-2007
From: Helene Mazo < mazo at elda.org >
Subject: ELRA LR Distribution Agreement 

	
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:48:40
From: Helene Mazo < mazo at elda.org >
Subject: ELRA LR Distribution Agreement 
 


Distribution Agreement

ELRA today signed a major Language Resources distribution agreement with
Beijing Haitian Ruisheng Science Technology Ltd.

ELRA and Beijing Haitian Ruisheng Science Technology Ltd today signed a
major Language Resources distribution agreement. On behalf of ELRA, ELDA
will act as the distribution agency for Beijing Haitian Ruisheng Science
Technology Ltd and will incorporate to the ELRA Language Resources
catalogue a large number of Speech resources designed and collected to
boost Speech Synthesis and Speech Recognition. The resources cover mainly
Mandarin Chinese with some coverage of Korean and Japanese languages.

With over 60 new resources, ELDA is strengthening its position as the
leading worldwide distribution centre. With this agreement Beijing Haitian
Ruisheng Science Technology Ltd will get more visibility in particular on
the European market.

List of available Speech Resources:

http://catalog.elra.info/search_result.php?keywords=s0228

List of available Written Corpora:

http://catalog.elra.info/search_result.php?keywords=w0045

More information on the ELRA catalogue, please contact:

Valérie Mapelli

mapelli at elda.org

More information on ELRA & ELDA, please contact:

Khalid Choukri

choukri at elda.org

Hélène Mazo

mazo at elda.org

ELDA

55-57, rue Brillat Savarin

75013 Paris (France)

Tel.: +33 1 43 13 33 33

Fax: +33 1 43 13 33 30


*** About ELRA ***

The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) is a non-profit making
organisation founded by the European Commission in 1995, with the mission
of providing a clearing house for language resources and promoting Human
Language Technologies (HLT).

To find out more about ELRA, please visit our web site: www.elra.info

*** About ELDA ***

The Evaluation and Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA) is ELRA
operational body. ELDA identifies, collects, markets, and distributes
language resources, along with the dissemination of general information in
the field of HLT. ELDA also participates in some evaluation projects and
campaigns, has considerable knowledge and skills in HLT applications and
has participated in many French, European and international projects.

To find out more about ELDA , please visit our web site: www.elda.org

*** About Beijing Haitian Ruisheng Science Technology Ltd / Kingline Data
Center ***

With rich experience in speech technology, the Kingline Data Center has
concentrated our time working on speech data processing since 1998. Till
now, 500 hours high quality speech synthesis corpora (read by professional
speakers in Chinese, Japanese, English and Spanish etc.) and 4,000 hours
speech recognition corpora (recorded with various microphones, desktop
phones, mobile phones, and in-Vehicle phones) have been collected and
processed.

To find out more about Beijing Haitian Ruisheng Science Technology Ltd /
Kingline Data Center , please visit our web site:
www.speechocean.com/indexe.asp 



Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics





 




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