1997 English Broadcast News Speech (HUB4)

<p>LDC98S71 - Speech data <a href="http://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC98T28" rel="nofollow">LDC98T28</a> - Transcripts</p><br>
<h3>Introduction</h3><br>
<p>This release&nbsp;contains a total of 97 hours of recordings from radio and television news broadcasts, gathered between June 1997 and February 1998. It has been prepared to serve as a supplement to the 1996 Broadcast News Speech collection (consisting of over 100 hours of similar recordings). The primary motivation for this collection is to provide additional training data for the DARPA "HUB4" Project on continuous speech recognition in the broadcast domain.</p><br>
<h3>Data</h3><br>
<p>Transcripts have been made of all recordings in this publication, manually time aligned to the phrasal level, annotated to identify boundaries between news stories, speaker turn boundaries and gender information about the speakers. The transcription conventions are described in the file "transcrp.doc" -- please note that this file describes the transcription methods by reference to text formatting conventions used internally by the LDC during the transcription process. The released version of the transcripts is in SGML format, comparable to the format that was used in the 1996 Broadcast News Speech transcriptions and there is accompanying documentation and an SGML DTD file, included with the transcription release.</p><br>
<h3>Updates</h3><br>
<p>There are no updates at this time.</p><br>
<h3>Additional Licensing Instructions</h3><br>
<p>This 'members-only' corpora is available to current members who can request the data at the listed reduced-license fee. Contact&nbsp;<a href="mailto:[e-mail]">[e-mail]</a>&nbsp;for information about becoming a member.</p></br>
Portions © 1997-1998 American Broadcasting Company, Inc., Cable News Network LP, LLLP, National Public Radio, Inc., National Satellite Cable Corporation, © 1998 Trustee of the University of Pennsylvania