[Corpora-List] Press Release - Language Resources Distribution Agreement ELRA-Beijing Haitian Ruisheng Science Technology Ltd

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    /Press Release - Immediate //Paris//, //France//, //January, 18^th 2007///

    *Distribution Agreement*

    /ELRA today signed a major Language Resources distribution agreement
    with Beijing Haitian Ruisheng Science Technology Ltd./

    ELRA and Beijing Haitian Ruisheng Science Technology Ltd today signed a
    major Language Resources distribution agreement. On behalf of ELRA, ELDA
    will act as the distribution agency for Beijing Haitian Ruisheng Science
    Technology Ltd and will incorporate to the ELRA Language Resources
    catalogue a large number of Speech resources designed and collected to
    boost Speech Synthesis and Speech Recognition. The resources cover
    mainly Mandarin Chinese with some coverage of Korean and Japanese languages.

    With over 60 new resources, ELDA is strengthening its position as the
    leading worldwide distribution centre. With this agreement Beijing
    Haitian Ruisheng Science Technology Ltd will get more visibility in
    particular on the European market.

    List of available Speech Resources:

    http://catalog.elra.info/search_result.php?keywords=s0228

    List of available Written Corpora:

    http://catalog.elra.info/search_result.php?keywords=w0045

    More information on the ELRA catalogue, please contact:

    Valérie Mapelli

    mapelli@elda.org <mailto:mapelli@elda.org>

     

    More information on ELRA & ELDA, please contact:

    Khalid Choukri

    choukri@elda.org <mailto:choukri@elda.org>

     

            

    Hélène Mazo

    mazo@elda.org <mailto:mazo@elda.org>

     

    ELDA

    55-57, rue Brillat Savarin

    75013 Paris (France)

    Tel.: +33 1 43 13 33 33

    Fax: +33 1 43 13 33 30

     

    *** About ELRA ***

    The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) is a non-profit
    making organisation founded by the European Commission in 1995, with the
    mission of providing a clearing house for language resources and
    promoting Human Language Technologies (HLT).

    To find out more about ELRA, please visit our web site: www.elra.info
    <http://www.elra.info/>

    *** About ELDA ***

    The Evaluation and Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA) is ELRA
    operational body. ELDA identifies, collects, markets, and distributes
    language resources, along with the dissemination of general information
    in the field of HLT. ELDA also participates in some evaluation projects
    and campaigns, has considerable knowledge and skills in HLT applications
    and has participated in many French, European and international projects.

    To find out more about ELDA, please visit our web site: www.elda.org
    <http://www.elda.org/>

    *** About Beijing Haitian Ruisheng Science Technology Ltd / Kingline
    Data Center ***

    With rich experience in speech technology, the Kingline Data Center has
    concentrated our time working on speech data processing since 1998. Till
    now, 500 hours high quality speech synthesis corpora (read by
    professional speakers in Chinese, Japanese, English and Spanish etc.)
    and 4,000 hours speech recognition corpora (recorded with various
    microphones, desktop phones, mobile phones, and in-Vehicle phones) have
    been collected and processed.

    To find out more about Beijing Haitian Ruisheng Science Technology Ltd /
    Kingline Data Center, please visit our web site:
    www.speechocean.com/indexe.asp <http://www.speechocean.com/indexe.asp>



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