Introduction

The 2000 HUB5 English Evaluation, Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) catalog number LDC2002S09 and ISBN 1-58563-225-2, is part of an ongoing series of periodic evaluations conducted by NIST. These evaluations provide an important contribution to the direction of research efforts and the calibration of technical capabilities. They are intended to be of interest to all researchers working on the general problem of conversational speech recognition. To this end the evaluation was designed to be simple, to focus on core speech technology issues, to be fully supported, and to be accessible.

Additional documentation is available at the 2000 NIST Evaluation Plan for Recognition of Conversational Speech Over the Telephone website.

Data

This publications contains 40 sphere files encoded in two channel interleaved mulaw for a total of 644,996,352 bytes (615 Mbytes) of sphere data. The sphere headers have been modified from the original evaluation data by the addition of sample checksums to the 20 CALLHOME data files.

An included documentation table contains information on the speech segments.

The transcripts for this speech may be found in 2000 HUB5 English Evaluation Transcripts(LDC2002T43).

Updates

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