TDT2 Mandarin Audio Corpus

<h3>Introduction</h3><br>
<p>Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT) 2 Mandarin Audio Corpus contains approximatley 52 hours of recordings of broadcast news audio. The transcriptions to these recordings are available in the Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT) 2 Multilanguage Text Version 4.0, <a href="../../../LDC2001T57">LDC2001T57</a>.</p><br>
<p>Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT) refers to automatic techniques for finding topically related material in streams of data such as newswire and broadcast news. The TDT2 corpus was created to support three TDT2 tasks: find topically homogeneous sections (segmentation), detect the occurrrence of new events (detection), and track the reoccurrencce of old or new events (tracking).</p><br>
<h3>Data</h3><br>
<p>Please see <a href="desc/addenda/LDC2001S93.tbl" rel="nofollow">file.tbl</a> for the directory structure of this publication, as well as a complete list of files.</p><br>
<p>The data files are recordings of Voice of America (VOA) news broadcasts. The data were collected daily over a period of six months (February-June 1998). The audio files in this corpus are single channel, 16 KHz, 16-bit linear SPHERE files.</p><br>
<h3>Updates</h3><br>
<p>There are no updates at this time.</p></br>
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