_/_/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ 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 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 Unversitaet Bonn, Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburg. 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 6.1 04.04.96 / 20.08.03 General VM 6.1 contains 147 dialogs with 191 appointments in the domain 'Appointment Scheduling'. 22 dialogues are spoken by Germans (Q*N, trying to speak English) and 125 dialogs are recorded with native Americans (R*C). History 6.0 : only signal files 6.1 : signals files, transliteration Remarks - The dialogs Q*N of VM 6.1 contain 3 appointments each. The turn numbering continues throughout the dialog. the dialogs R*C contain 1 appointment 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. - Q*N turns do not have a channel numbering (channel is always 0)