LDC Catalog

Fisher English Training Speech Part 1 Speech


Item Name:	Fisher English Training Speech Part 1 Speech
Authors:	Christopher Cieri , Dave Graff, Owen Kimball, Dave Miller, and Kevin Walker
LDC Catalog No.:	LDC2004S13
ISBN:	1-58563-313-5
Release Date:	Dec 15, 2004
Data Type:	speech
Sample Rate:	8000 Hz
Sampling Format:	ulaw
Data Source(s):	telephone conversations
Project(s):	EARS, GALE
Application(s):	speech recognition
Language(s):	English
Language ID(s):	ENG
Distribution:	7 DVD
Member fee:	$0 for 2004 members
Non-member Fee:	US$7000.00
Reduced-License Fee:	US$3500.00
Extra-Copy Fee:	US$1400.00
Non-member License:	yes
Online documentation:	yes
Licensing Instructions:	Subscription Members, Standard Members, Non-Members
Citation:	Christopher Cieri , et al. 2004 Fisher English Training Speech Part 1 Speech Linguistic Data Consortium, Philadelphia

Introduction This page contains information on The Fisher English Corpus Part 1 Speech, LDC catatalog ID LDC2004S13, ISBN 1-58563-313-5. This corpus represents the first half of a collection of conversational telephone speech (CTS) that was created at the LDC during 2003. It contains 5,850 audio files, each one containing a full conversation of up to 10 minutes. Additional information regarding the speakers involved and types of telephones used can be found in the companion text corpus of transcripts (Fisher English Training Text Data, Part 1 -- LDC2004T19) Data The individual audio files are presented in NIST SPHERE format, and contain two-channel mu-law sample data; "shorten" compression has been applied to all files. Data collection and transcription were sponsored by DARPA and the U.S. Department of Defense, as part of the EARS project for research and development in automatic speech recognition. Samples Please examine this sample to see an example of the data in this corpus.

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