_/_/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ 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 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 8.1.1 04.04.96 / 09.01.97 General VM 8.1.1 contains 252 dialogs with 252 appointments in the domain 'Appointment Scheduling' recorded with native Americans (R*C). History 8.0 : only signal files, 163 appointments 8.1 : signals files, transliteration 8.1.1 : extended to 252 appointments Remarks - 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. - in contrast to other BAS editions this corpus contains PhonDat 1 Header structures, because their were no canonical transcripts available for the english spoken dialogs in Verbmobil. Known Errors: r161c/r161cxx2_007_SRH : NIST file is missing