Foreign Accented English Corpus
                            Release 1.2

              Center for Spoken Language Understanding


UPDATED: 3 June 2002


This document describes the file naming conventions used
for this distribution and gives a brief description of the
various file formats used.

File Naming Convention
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File naming follows the following convention:

FBP00006.wav

The first letter ("F") is the prefix indicating the corpus
to which this data belongs, the second and third letters
("BP") represent the speaker's native language, and the
numbers ("00006") are a unique speaker ID number.

File Formats
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There are two file formats used in this corpus (other than
The documentation).  The .wav file format used is the RIFF
standard file format. This file format is 16-bit linearly
encoded.

The info file format is described in the overview.txt file.

Some of the files in this corpus are also included in the
CSLU 22 Language Speech corpus. Those files have been
verified by a native speaker of the language. A variety of
information about the speaker was collected into an .inf
file. There are info files for 1785 of the calls, since
native speakers have not screened all of the calls. As an
example, these are the contents of AR00145.inf:

   145 general dialect bahrain
   145 general gender male
   145 general age adult
   145 general connection good
   145 general intelligibility good

The first field is the call number, the second is the
comment category (all are general), the third field
contains the variety of information being presented, and
the final field is the value of that particular item. Thus
this file tells us that the speaker is an adult male who
speaks the Bahrain dialect of Arabic. We can also see that
the level of connection (line) quality and speaker
intelligibility were good.