Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: ShATR - A Corpus for Auditory Scene Analysis

[Brian Karlsen <B.Karlsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Unfortunately, a few errors were made in the announcement of this corpus.

First of all I would like to stress that 'shorten' by Tony Robinson is *not*
public-domain! And neither are the findsegs and sndextrc tools. Shorten is
provided under the following license:

SHORTEN SOFTWARE LICENSE

This software is being provided to you, the LICENSEE, by Tony Robinson
under the following license.  By obtaining, using and/or copying this
software, you agree that you have read, understood, and will comply with
these terms and conditions:

This software may not be sold or incorporated into any product which is
sold without prior permission from the author.  When no charge is made,
this software may be copied and distributed freely.

Permission is granted to use this software for decoding and non-commercial
encoding.  Commercial encoding licences may be negotiated.

DISCLAIMER

This software carries no warranty, expressed or implied.  The user
assumes all risks, known or unknown, direct or indirect, which involve
this software in any way.

Dr AJ Robinson  Tel +44 1223 332815  Fax +44 1223 332662  Email ajr4@cam.ac.uk
Cambridge University Engineering Department, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, UK


The two latter tools are provided with this license:


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Secondly, an error in the WWW address was made. This is the correct one:

http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/groups/spandh/ShATR/ShATR.html

I apologise very much for any inconveniences this may have caused.

Cheers
  Brian
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Research Associate                 | Department of Computer Science
                                   | University of Sheffield
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