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                   BAVARIAN ARCHIVE FOR SPEECH SIGNALS 

               University of Munich, Institut of Phonetics
               Schellingstr. 3/II, 80799 Munich, Germany
                      bas@phonetik.uni-muenchen.de


         COPYRIGHT University of Munich 1998. All rights reserved.   
    This corpus and software may not be disseminated further - not even
      partly - without a written permission of the copyright holders.  

                      Additional Copyright Holders
                     University of Hamburg, Germany

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VERBMOBIL II Dialog Database  39.1.0 (BAS Edition)

16.11.99 / 25.11.99

Volume 39 of the VERBMOBIL II collection contains 

- 20 German dialogues in scenario VM II A recorded in Munich, Germany
  (close microphone + telephone channel)
- 8 German dialogues in scenario VM II B recorded in Bonn, Germany
  (close microphone) 
- 31 multilingual dialogues (German - English) recorded at the 
  'End-2-End-Evaluation 12/98' in Hamburg, Germany
  (close microphone)
 
The multilingual dialogues are stored in seperate dirs noted with
a '-e2e' at the end of the name.

BEWARE: These multi-lingual recordings differ from other multi-lingual
recordings because here the prototype was used as an interpreter (the 
other recordings have a human interpreter). From that follows that 
the e2e recordings 
- have very long pauses between turns (up to several minutes)
- contain lots of interupted dialogs caused by system failures
- contain a somewhat ahrd to follow dialog structure because of 
translation errors of the system (wich are not contained!)
We therefore DO NOT recommend to use these data unrestrictedly 
together with other multi-lingual recordings. For this reason they
are stored seperately (*-e2e) to prohibit automatic processing.

