LDC Catalog

1996 English Broadcast News Dev and Eval (HUB4)


Item Name:	1996 English Broadcast News Dev and Eval (HUB4)
Authors:	David Graff, Jennifer Alabiso, Jon Fiscus, John Garofolo, William Fisher, and David Pallett
LDC Catalog No.:	LDC97S66
ISBN:	1-58563-108-6
Data Type:	speech
Sample Rate:	16000 Hz
Sampling Format:	1-channel pcm
Data Source(s):	broadcast news
Project(s):	EARS, GALE, Hub4
Application(s):	speech recognition
Language(s):	English
Language ID(s):	eng
Distribution:	1 DVD
Member fee:	$0 for 1997, 1998 members
Non-member Fee:	N/A (Members Only)
Reduced-License Fee:	N/A
Extra-Copy Fee:	US $200.00
Member License:	yes
Online documentation:	yes
Licensing Instructions:	Subscription Members, Standard Members, Non-Members
Citation:	David Graff, et al. 1997 1996 English Broadcast News Dev and Eval (HUB4) Linguistic Data Consortium, Philadelphia

LDC97S44 - Speech data LDC97S66 - Dev and eval LDC97T22 - Transcripts Introduction The 1996 Broadcast News Speech Corpus contains a total of 104 hours of broadcasts from ABC, CNN and CSPAN television networks and NPR and PRI radio networks with corresponding transcripts. The primary motivation for this collection is to provide training data for the DARPA "HUB4" Project on continuous speech recognition in the broadcast domain. Data The speech files are available in a 19 disc training data set with one additional disc of development data and an additional disc of evaluation data. The following programs are represented in this corpus: ABC Nightline ABC World Nightly News ABC World News Tonight CNN Early Edition CNN Early Prime News CNN Headline News CNN Prime Time News CNN The World Today CSPAN Washington Journal NPR All Things Considered NPR Marketplace Transcripts have been made of all recordings in this publication, manually time aligned to the phrasal level, annotated to identify boundaries between news stories, speaker turn boundaries, and gender information about the speakers. The released version of the transcripts is in SGML format and there is accompanying documentation and an SGML DTD file, included with the transcription release. The transcripts are available via FTP. Updates There are no updates at this time. Copyright Pricing The Reduced Licensing Fee for this corpus is US$200.

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