SEPTEMBER '92 BENCHMARK TESTS

TEST MATERIAL: The September '92 Benchmark Tests include previously
unreleased material drawn from the Speaker Dependent and Speaker
Independent Evaluation Test sets.  One set of 300 sentence utterances
was designated for the Speaker Dependent tests (25 sentence utterances
from each of the 12 speakers), and another set of 300 sentence
utterances was designated for the Speaker Independent tests (30
sentence utterances from each of a new set of 10 speakers).

SPEAKER INDEPENDENT SYSTEM TRAINING: System training conditions were
to be the same as for previous benchmark tests (i.e., use of either
the 72-speaker "standard" or 109-speaker "augmented" training sets).
However, use of the 109-speaker "augmented" training set is preferred
for baseline purposes.

LIVE TALKERS: No "live talker tests" were included in these tests. 

"HOMOPHONES CORRECT" OPTION IN SCORING: As in the previous tests,
substitution errors involving homophones were scored as "correct" for
the case of no imposed grammar.

STANDARD WORD-PAIR GRAMMAR: The "word-pair" grammar, used in the
previous tests, was again used as a "standard grammar".