Subject: New Release from the LDC (CTIMIT) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 15:20:57 EST From: LDC Office Announcing a NEW RELEASE from the LINGUISTIC DATA CONSORTIUM Cellular TIMIT Speech Corpus CTIMIT The CTIMIT corpus is a cellular-bandwidth adjunct to the TIMIT Acoustic Phonetic Continuous Speech Corpus (NIST Speech Disc CD1-1.1/NTIS Pb91-505065, October 1990). The corpus was contributed by Lockheed-Martin Sanders to the LDC for distribution on CD-ROM media. The CTIMIT read speech corpus has been designed to provide a large, phonetically labeled database for use in the design and evaluation of speech processing systems operating in diverse, often hostile, cellular telephone environments. CTIMIT was collected by members of the Voice Communication Initiative (VCI) at Lockheed-Martin Sanders' Signal Processing Center of Technology (SPCOT) as part of internal R&D efforts, with additional sponsorship from the Wireless Communications Group in the company's Advanced Engineering and Technology (AE&T) Division. Institutions that have membership in the LDC during the 1996 Membership Year will be able to receive CTIMIT at no additional charge, in the same manner as all other text and speech corpora published by the LDC. Nonmembers can receive a copy of CTIMIT for research purposes only for a fee of $100. If you would like to order a copy of this corpus, please email your request to ldc@unagi.cis.upenn.edu. If you need additional information before placing your order, or would like to inquire about membership in the LDC, please send email or call (215) 898-0464. Further information about the LDC and its available corpora can be accessed on the Linguistic Data Consortium WWW Home Page at URL http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ldc. Information is also available via ftp at ftp.cis.upenn.edu under pub/ldc; for ftp access, please use "anonymous" as your login name, and give your email address when asked for password.