_/_/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ 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 Karlsruhe, 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 2.1.5 13.05.94 / 10.08.00 History 2.0 : only signal files 2.1 : signals files, transliteration + canonical form in header (PhonDat 2) 2.1.1 : added standard partitur files 2.1.2 : added tier MAU (all) added tier PRB, WOR in dialog g121a added tier DAS (all) added tier SAP in dialogs m112d, m113d, m114d, m115d, m116d m117d, m119d 2.1.3 : added tier TR2 (all) 2.1.4 : 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 2.1.5 : Removed ISO8859 Umlaut from comment in TR2 tier of m021nxx0_024_SIO.par Remarks - The dialogs M112D to M125D of VM 2.1 contain 4 appointments each. The turn numbering continues throughout the dialog. The dialogs G101A to G315A contain 3 appointments, the dialogs M016N to M021N contain 8 appointments and the dialogs N024K to N053K 1 appointmant 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.