Apple Words and Phrases Corpus Release 1.3 Center for Spoken Language Understanding UPDATED: 23 August 2002 Overview -------- The Apple Words and Phrases corpus was developed with support from Apple Computer, Inc., who also supplied the list of words and phrases to be collected. This telephone speech corpus contains about 39.5 hours of speech. 998 calls were collected on an analog system and 2010 calls were collected on a digital system. Each caller repeated a list of phrases as they were prompted. The phrases were command and control type phrases, eg "help". Recording Conditions -------------------- Each subject called the CSLU data collection system by dialing a toll-free number. 998 of the callers called an analog system and 2010 called a digital system. The analog data were collected via a Worldport Pod on an Apple Quadra A/V. The digital data were collected with the CSLU T1 digital data collection system. Subject Population ------------------ Subjects calling the analog system were employees of Apple Computer, Inc. and were solicited through interoffice email within the company. Subjects calling the digital system were responding to USEnet postings or newspaper advertisements placed in papers in several cities across the United States. Annotation ---------- Each recorded utterance was listened to by a human verifier to determine if the speaker adequately followed the directions. If an utterance contained extraneous words or excessive noise, it was not included in the corpus. Protocol -------- The complete protocol is listed below, including the words and phrases that were repeated, that each caller followed. The terms enclosed in pointy brackets (<>) were expanded according to the "substitution lists" given at the end of the protocol. Thank you for calling the Center for Spoken Language Understanding speech data base. This call will take about seven minutes. We appreciate your willingness to participate in our study. This research is directly related to devloping better human computer interaction through the use of voice control. During this call we will be asking you to answer questions and repeat phrases. After each prompt please wait for the beep before responding. What is your native language? In what city and state did you spend most of your childhood? What time is it now? What day is today? For the next part of this call we will say a phrase and ask you to repeat it. For example, we would say "read this text" and you would respond by saying "read this text". Please say the phrase as if you were giving a command to a computer. play previous message again cancel my ten AM appointment make a meeting for today what is my street address quit forward this message to my wife set-up a call with and conference call and who is at work stop what is the area code for this state add my son to the phone book remove number from the directory hello, what are my messages skip the next name help good-bye please send a car from the city dial delete my email tomorrow cancel read this text correct my balance call my daughter at eleven pm on erase all information no record extended phonebook get my office transfer all calls to home at twelve oclock use voice record urgent message yes find the operator call dial phone call phone Pretend you need to schedule an appointment to have your telephone fixed. You've called the phone company and identified the problem. Now you need to tell the operator what time you will be available. Please respond to the following prompts at the tone. 1. What day would you like the service call? 2. Would you prefer morning or afternoon? 3. What time is most convenient for you? Thank you for your participation. If you would like to receive a gift certificate for either McDonalds, TCBY yogurt, B Dalton Books, Blockbuster, or Baskin Robbins please leave your name, address, and selection. You may hang up when you are done. Thank you. SUBSTITUTION LISTS --- --- ADAM ALFRED ANGELA BARRY BERT BILLY BRENDA CAROLYN CHARLOTTE CLARK DAN DEAN DOROTHY EDDIE ELAINE EMILY EVELYN GAIL GINA HARRY IRENE JAN JEANNE JESSE JOHN JOYCE JULIE KATHRYN KEN LAURA LEONARD LORI LYNN MARIE MASON MICHELLE PATTY PERRY RANDALL RHONDA ROBIN ROSS SAM SARAH SHIRLEY STEWART TAMMY TOMMY VICTOR WAYNE --- --- ADAM SMITH ALFRED JOHNSON ANGELA WILLIAMS BARRY BROWN BERT JONES BILLY MILLER BRENDA DAVIS CAROLYN ANDERSON CHARLOTTE WILSON CLARK MOORE DAN TAYLOR DEAN MARTIN DOROTHY THOMPSON EDDIE ROSE ELAINE WHITE EMILY CLARK EVELYN JACKSON GAIL HARRIS GINA LEWIS HARRY WALKER IRENE HALL JAN YOUNG JEANNE ALLEN JESSE LEE JOHN ROBINSON JOYCE NELSON JULIE KING KATHRYN BAKER KEN WRIGHT LAURA ADAMS LEONARD HILL LORI SCOTT LYNN GREEN MARIE ROBERTS MASON CAMPBELL MICHELLE PHILLIPS PATTY MITCHELL PERRY EVANS RANDALL CARTER RHONDA TURNER ROBIN PARKER ROSS MURPHY SAM STEWART SARAH MORRIS SHIRLEY PETERSON STEWART IRVING TAMMY OLSON TOMMY SCHMIDT VICTOR VASQUEZ WAYNE BOYD --- --- one two three four five six seven eight nine zero oh --- --- sunday monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday saturday --- --- nine nine eight nine seven nine six six nine five nine four nine three three nine two nine one nine zero one eight eight seven eight six eight eight five eight four eight three eight eight two eight one seven seven six six seven five seven four seven three three seven two seven one six six six five six four six three six six two six one five five four four five three five two five one one four four three four two four four one three three two three one one two two one one zero nine nine nine eight zero eight nine seven seven zero seven nine six zero six six nine five zero five nine four four zero four nine three zero three three nine two zero two nine one one zero zero one eight eight seven two three nine one two three two five four nine five seven eight five