--------------------------------------------------------------- NIST Speech Disc "R117_1_1" The 2007 NIST Language Recognition Evaluation Test Data United States Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology Information Access Division / Speech Group --------------------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION: ------------- The 2007 NIST Language Recognition Evaluation is intended to establish the current baseline of performance capability for language recognition using conversational telephone speech data. The evaluation protocols are defined in the "Evaluation Plan" which is located on the official 2007 NIST Language Recognition Evaluation web site: http://www.nist.gov/speech/tests/lang/ DATA ORGANIZATION: ------------------ The DVD is organized as follows: ./readme.txt --> this file ./lid07e1/seg.ndx --> specifies the segments to be processed in all of the tests ./lid07e1/data/ --> contains the audio segments. Each segment is a single channel, 8-bit, 8-kHz, u-law SPHERE format speech data file.