File: readme.doc, updated: 07/20/92.

                        NTIMIT Speech Corpus CD-ROMs
                                 (NTIMIT)

                     NIST Speech Discs 10-1.1, 10-2.1

                               August, 1992


                 Developed by NYNEX Science and Technology        
  Produced on CD-ROM by the National Institute of Standards and Technology

                     Copyright 1990 NYNEX Corporation
                            All Rights Reserved


The NTIMIT corpus was developed by the NYNEX Science and Technology
Speech Communication Group to provide a telephone bandwidth adjunct to
the popular TIMIT Acoustic-Phonetic Continuous Speech Corpus [NIST
Speech Disc 1-1.1/NTIS PB91-505065, October 1990].  The corpus was
contributed by NYNEX to NIST for distribution on CD-ROM media.  

Please note that NYNEX retains full copyright on the corpus and all
associated materials.


The following files and subdirectories are located in the top level
directory of this CD-ROM:

   convert/ - directory containing ESPRIT SAM software for converting
              TIMIT (or NTIMIT) speech files into a SAM compatible format;

    ntimit/ - NTIMIT corpus and documentation.  See the file,
              "ntimit/readme.doc", for more information.

 readme.doc - This file.

    sphere/ - NIST SPeech HEader REsources (SPHERE).  C-language source
              code libraries and utilities for manipulating NIST-headered
              speech waveform files.  See "/sphere/readme.doc" for more
              information.