Readme file for the Macrophone "docs" directory

This directory contains reference information that explains the
collection and presentation of the Macrophone Corpus.

The file "finalrep.doc" is the final report prepared by SRI after
completion of the data collection.  It explains the collection
protocols and the formats of the data base tables contained in the
"tables" directory.

The files "icassp94.ps" and "icassp94.txt" contain, respectively,
PostScript and plain-text versions of the paper "Macrophone: an
American English telephone speech corpus for the Polyphone Project",
by Jared Bernstein, Kelsey Taussig and Jack Godfrey, which was
presented at the ICASSP '94 Conference.  (The PostScript version
contains diagrams and graphs that are not replicated in the plain-text
version.)

The file "panlhous.doc" explains the contents of the data base table
provided by a marketing firm (NFO Research, Inc.), which contains the
detailed demographics of the sample population; this table is found in
the "tables" directory as "panlhous.tbl".

The methods and conventions for transcription are described in
"transcrp.doc".

The overall structure of the directories and files in this corpus is
described in "mcphondb.doc".