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NIST Open Evaluation of Speech Activity Detection 

(OpenSAD15) Evaluation Agreement 

In the remainder of this document the term User refers to: 

_______________________________________ (Individual name)

and the term User's Research Group refers to:

_______________________________________ (University, Institute or Company name) 

_______________________________________ (Specific department, area, organizational unit) 

_______________________________________ (Geographic site where material will be used) 

User agrees on behalf of User’s Research Group, to receive media (CD-ROM, DVD, hard 

drive, web download, etc.), named below under "Corpora and/or Data Received," containing 

images, speech, text and/or video data from the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC). User agrees 

to use the material received under this agreement (the “Data”) only for purposes of the 

OpenSAD15 evaluation at the geographic site indicated above. User and User’s Research 

Group may include limited excerpts from the Data in articles, reports and other documents 

describing the results of work performed in the OpenSAD15 evaluation. User further agrees not 

to otherwise publish, retransmit, disclose, display, copy, reproduce or redistribute the Data to 

others outside of User’s Research Group. 

After participation in the OpenSAD15 evaluation has ended, User agrees to delete the Data from 

any computer or media onto which it has been copied and to return all media to LDC. 

User designates _______________________ as the data contact person under this agreement. 

The data contact person shall receive all material distributed by LDC under this agreement. The 

data contact person is responsible for distributing such material to User’s Research Group. 

User shall send a signed copy of this agreement by facsimile to LDC, Attention: Ilya Ahtaridis, 

fax number (+1) 215-573-2175. Alternatively, User shall e-mail an electronic version of the 

signed agreement to LDC at ldc@ldc.upenn.edu.

All Data is provided “as is” and neither the Linguistic Data Consortium nor the University of 

Pennsylvania warrant the accuracy, completeness, currentness, merchantability or fitness for a 

particular purpose of the Data. In no event will the Linguistic Data Consortium or the University 

of Pennsylvania be liable for any loss or injury caused in whole or in part by its negligence or 

contingencies beyond its control in procuring, compiling, interpreting, editing, writing, reporting 

or delivering the Data, or for any errors, omissions or inaccuracies in the Data, regardless of how 

caused. In no event will the Linguistic Data Consortium or the University of Pennsylvania be 

liable to User, User’s Research Group, or to any other individual or organization for any 

decision made or action taken in reliance upon any part of the Data or for any consequential, 

direct, special or similar damages, even if advised of the possibility of such damages. 
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Corpora and/or Data Received

LDC2015E96 NIST OpenSAD15 Training

LDC2015E97 NIST OpenSAD15 Development

LDC2015E98 NIST OpenSAD15 Test

Organization: __________________________________________________

Name: ________________________________________________________

Mailing address: ____________________________________________

__________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________

Phone: ____________________________________________________

Fax: ______________________________________________________

Email: ____________________________________________________

Signature: ______________________________________________________

Date: __________________________________________________________

For LDC:

Christopher Cieri

Executive Director