Stories Corpus Release 1.2 Center for Spoken Language Understanding UPDATED: 22 September 2002 Use of this corpus is permitted only under the conditions of the signed license agreement. Use or redistribution of this corpus outside the agreement is prohibited by law. Overview -------- The Stories Corpus is made up of extemporaneous speech collected from English speakers in the CSLU Multi-language Telephone Speech data collection. Each speaker was asked to speak on a topic of their choice for one minute. These utterances are make up the Stories Corpus. The Stories Corpus comprises: 1. Speech files for the 702 calls (found in /speech directory) 2. Time-aligned word level transcriptions (and corresponding comment files) for approximately 322 stories (found in the /labels/*/*.wrd directory) 3. Word transcriptions (not time aligned) for 702 stories (found in the /trans/ directory) 4. Time-aligned phonetic labels for 210 stories (found in the /labels/*/*.ptlola directory) and 702 with extention of phn as product of automatic force alignment Distribution Directory Structure -------------------------------- This is the distribution for Release 1.1 of the Stories Corpus. This corpus is distributed by the Center for Spoken Language Understanding of the Oregon Health & Science University. Following is a description of the directory structure in this release: readme.txt General information regarding the corpus. docs/ The documentation directory. This directory contains further documentation for the Stories corpus. labels/ Phonetic labeling directory. This directory contains phonetic labeling information for this corpus. misc/ Miscellaneous directory, possibly containing software tools, comments and scripts. speech/ The speech directory contains the actual .wav files. There are many numbered subdirectories within the speech directory. trans/ The transcriptions directory. This directory contains the word transcription for each of the speech files. This corpus requires approximately 531MB of disk space. Please see the /docs directory for further documentation. Contact Information ------------------- Further information about this corpus can be found our web site: . Refer specific questions to: - Alena Tkacova - Linguistic Data Services Manager - Center for Spoken Language Understanding - Oregon Health & Science University - email : alca@asp.ogi.edu - Phone : 503 748-1600 - FAX : 503 748-7038 - Address : 20000 NW Walker Road Beaverton, OR 97006 USA Constructive feedback about this corpus is appreciated.