Multilanguage Telephone Corpus
                           Release Version 1.2

              Center for Spoken Language Understanding


UPDATED: 3 June 2002


Distribution Directory Structure
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This is the directory structure for this distribution of
the Multilanguage Telephone Corpus.  This corpus is
distributed by the Center for Spoken Language Understanding
of the Oregon Graduate Institute.  Following is a
description of the directory structure in this release:

  readme.txt	This file.

  docs/		The documentation directory. This
		directory contains further documentation for
		the Multilanguage anguage corpus.

  labels/	The labels directory. This directory
		contains the .ptlola phonetic labels for
                619 of the speech files.

  speech/	The speech directory contains the actual 
		.wav files. There are many further 
		subdirectories within the speech directory.

  misc/		Miscellaneous directory, possibly
		containing software tools and scripts.

  trans/	Phonetic labeling directory. This directory
		is empty for this corpus.

This corpus requires approximately 2.2GB of disk space.

Visually, the directory structure looks something like
this:

			 multilang
			     |
   --------------------------------------------------
   |           |        |        |        |         |
readme.txt   /docs   /labels   /misc   /speech   /trans

The /speech directory contains the speech data.  The files
are divided into sub-directories based on the language of
the speaker, and then into further subdirectories based on
the speaker's ID number. The directory names are based on 
the ID number divided by 10. So, utterances from speakers 
0-9 are in the subdirectory /0, while utterances from 
speakers 10-19 are in the subdirectory /1, and so on.

The /lables directory contains time-aligned phonetic
transcriptions 643 of the speech files. As with the 
speech files, the label files are divided into 
sub-directories based on the speaker's language and ID 
number.