File: readme.doc, updated 2/14/96

			 Cellular TIMIT Speech Corpus
				   (CTIMIT)

			    Training and Test Data
			       Version 1.0alpha

			 NIST SPeech HEader REsources
				 Release 2.5

				February, 1996

		  Developed by Lockheed-Martin Sanders, Inc.
	  Produced on CD-ROM by the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC)

	       Copyright 1996 by Lockheed-Martin Sanders, Inc.
			     All rights reserved


The CTIMIT corpus is a cellular-bandwidth adjunct to the TIMIT Acoustic-
Phonetic Continuous Speech Corpus (NIST Speech Disc CD1-1.1/NTIS PB91-505065,
October 1990).  The corpus was contributed by Lockheed-Martin Sanders to LDC
for distribution on CD-ROM media.

Please note that Lockheed-Martin Sanders, Inc. retains full copyright on the
corpus and all associated materials (excluding the NIST SPHERE software
package, which is freely available and redistributable, and is provided here
as a convenience to users).

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

    ctimit/ - CTIMIT corpus and documentation.  See the file,
              "ctimit/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.