Names Corpus Release 1.3 Center for Spoken Language Understanding UPDATED 23 August 2002 --------------------- FINAL RELEASE - Release Version 1.3 we have added time aligned phoneme-level transcriptions (automatic forced alignment). 3 June 2002 ----------- Release Version 1.2 Adding statistics file, consistency check. 29 March 2002 ------------- Small modification in readme.txt and file structure. 07 August 2000 ------------ Release Version 1.1 Several changes have been implemented that differentiate this version of the Names Corpus from version 1.0. These changes include the following: * Speech files in the /speech directory have been converted from NIST format to RIFF format. * The directory structure has been modified so that it is more logical and accessible. * The documentation has been updated so that it accurately reflects the corpus contents. These and other changes have been made to make the corpus more useful to the end-user.