Subject: Re: wanted help. From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford(at)DCS.SHEF.AC.UK> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 15:51:55 GMTHi Ke, > I want to get some standard speech database and only know an email > accout of LDC where those databases may be available. Unfortunately, > I have sent several mails to them but no response has not been > available. As a result, I would appreciate it if anyone could help me > acquire those database. > Whilst they've been good about responding in the past, I've had problems getting through to the LDC recently too. If you have WWW access, you might find it easiest to check out their pages: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ldc/ Membership for non-profit-making institutions (which I think refers primarily to academia, rather than to businesses having a hard time! ;-) is $2000 per annum, for which you get copies of all databases released during that year. At the moment "backdated" membership for '93 and '94 is not available. For the ones you're interested in: 1995 RELEASES Price Set-of Description Release Date or Catalog # 2500 1 KING Speaker Verification LDC95S22 1993 RELEASES Price Set-of Description LDC Catalog # 100 1 TIMIT LDC93S1 (34) 250 3 TIDIGITS LDC93S10 (12) (also perhaps: 250 2 NTIMIT LDC93S2 125 1 TI 46-Word LDC93S9 (31) ?) Best wishes, mmalc. posn. research facilitator where institute for language speech and hearing sheffield university west court 2 mappin street sheffield s1 4dt england vox (+44) 114 282 5269 fax (+44) 114 278 0972 email m.crawford(at)dcs.shef.ac.uk NeXTMail, SunMail, MIME welcome PGP key available on request http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/ilash/