We summarize the motivation for this effort , the goals , the implementation of a
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multi-site data collection paradigm
</term>
, and the accomplishments of
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MADCOW
</term>
in monitoring the collection and distribution of 12,000
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utterances
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of
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spontaneous speech
</term>
from five sites for use in a
<term>
multi-site common evaluation of speech , natural language and spoken language
</term>
.
#23566We summarize the motivation for this effort, the goals, the implementation of a multi-site data collection paradigm, and the accomplishments of MADCOW in monitoring the collection and distribution of 12,000 utterances of spontaneous speech from five sites for use in a multi-site common evaluation of speech, natural language and spoken language.