February 2015 Newsletter

New Corpora

Avocado Research Email Collection

GALE Chinese-English Word Alignment and Tagging -- Broadcast Training Part 3

RATS Speech Activity Detection

Announcements

Only Two Weeks Left to Enjoy 2015 Membership Savings
There’s still time to save on 2015 membership fees. Now through March 2, all organizations will receive a 5% discount when they join for MY2015. MY2014 members are eligible for an additional 5% off the fee when they renew before March 2. 

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• CIEMPIESS - Mexican Spanish radio broadcast audio and transcripts     
• GALE Phase 3 and 4 data – all tasks and languages
• Mandarin Chinese Phonetic Segmentation and Tone Corpus - phonetic segmentation and tone labels  
• RATS Speech Activity Detection  – multilanguage audio for robust speech detection and language identification
• SEAME - Mandarin-English code-switching speech

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