Foreign Accented English Corpus
                            Release 1.2

              Center for Spoken Language Understanding


UPDATED: 3 June 2002


Directory Structure
-------------------
This document describes the directory structure of this
release. 

Following is a written 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 Foreign Accented English corpus.

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

  misc/		Miscellaneous directory, possibly
		containing software tools and scripts.
 		This directory  contains info files
		for many of the speech files.

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

  trans/	The transcriptions directory. For this corpus,
		there are no transcriptions in the directory.

This corpus requires approximately 1.4GB of disk space.

Visually, the directory structure looks something like this:

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

The /speech directory contains the speech data.  The files
Are divided into sub-directories based on the speaker's
native language. The directory names are based on the
following codes:

AR  Arabic
BP  Brazillian Portuguese
CA  Cantonese
CZ  Czech
FA  Farsi
FR  French
GE  German
HI  Hindi
HU  Hungarian
IN  Indonesian
IT  Italian
JA  Japanese
KO  Korean
MA  Mandarin
MY  Malay
PO  Polish
PP  Iberian Portuguese
RU  Russian
SD  Swedish
SP  Spanish
SW  Swahili
TA  Tamil
VI  Vietnamese

The /trans directory would normally contain transcriptions
of the speech files. 
The /misc directory incudes information files that correspond 
to the speech files.