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".