Names Corpus Release 1.3 Center for Spoken Language Understanding UPDATED: 23 August 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 utterances in this corpus were taken from many other Telephone speech data collections that have been completed at the CSLU. In most data collections, the callers were asked to leave their name at some point. Also, the callers would occasionally leave their name in the midst of another utterance. The names in these situations were extracted out of the host utterance and added to the Names Corpus. Distribution Directory Structure -------------------------------- This is the distribution for Release 1.2 of the Names 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 General information regarding the corpus. docs/ The documentation directory. This directory contains further documentation for the Names corpus. labels/ Phonetic labeling directory. This directory contains phonetic labeling information for this corpus. misc/ Miscellaneous directory, possibly containing software tools 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 orthographic transcription for each of the speech files. This corpus requires approximately 596MB 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.