_/_/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ BAVARIAN ARCHIVE FOR SPEECH SIGNALS University of Munich, Institut of Phonetics Schellingstr. 3/II, 80799 Munich, Germany bas@sun1.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de COPYRIGHT University of Munich 1995. 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 C Copyright 1994 Universitaet Muenchen, Universitaet Kiel, Unversitaet Bonn. All rights reserved. This corpus and software may not be disseminated further - not even partly - without a written permission of the copyright holders. The CDROM stays a property of the Bavarian Archive for Speech Signals (BAS) until the costs for production and shipping are paid to the BAS. =========================================================================== README VERBMOBIL Dialog Database VM 3.1.4 13.05.94 / 10.08.00 History 3.0 : only signal files 3.1 : signals files, transliteration + canonical form in header (PhonDat 2) 3.1.1 : added standard partitur files 3.1.2 : added tier MAU (all) added tier DAS (all) added tier PLB, WOR in dialogs g145a, g191a, g205a 3.1.3 : added tier TR2 3.1.4 : transformed signal files into NIST standard, renamed according to Verbmobil2 naming conventions and placed into subdir /data BPF : complete update, renamed according to Verbmobil2 naming conventions Remarks - The dialogs M110D to M155D of VM 3.1 contain 4 appointments each. The turn numbering continues throughout the dialog. The dialogs G142A to G207A contain 3 appointments each, the dialogs M022N to M032N contain 8 appointments each. - Clipping within the speech signal can be detected by checking the header item abs_max (maximal absolute amplitude). - Items of the headers are always stored as Intel word or long words.