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USAspending.gov award record (official API), NIST definitive contract DOCSB134118CN0003 to the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

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Record	Kind	As stated	Dated
SAFE-T public-safety speech corpus made to order: at least 291 hours of game-elicited English speech under loud background noise from 100 or more speakers, at least 122 hours manually transcribed, to train and test speech recognition (NIST OpenSAT, built by the Linguistic Data Consortium)	Price observation	$645,812.76 (total obligated) per contract (Dec 2017 to Sep 2019; 291 hours required,…	28 Dec 2017
A public buyer pays hundreds of times more per hour to have specialised speech made than the same data later lists for in a research catalogue	Negotiation lever	NIST paid the University of Pennsylvania $645,812.76 for the SAFE-T public-safety speech…	15 Aug 2023

SAFE-T public-safety speech corpus made to order: at least 291 hours of game-elicited English speech under loud background noise from 100 or more speakers, at least 122 hours manually transcribed, to train and test speech recognition (NIST OpenSAT, built by the Linguistic Data Consortium)
Kind
Price observation
As stated
$645,812.76 (total obligated) per contract (Dec 2017 to Sep 2019; 291 hours required,…
Dated
28 Dec 2017
A public buyer pays hundreds of times more per hour to have specialised speech made than the same data later lists for in a research catalogue
Kind
Negotiation lever
As stated
NIST paid the University of Pennsylvania $645,812.76 for the SAFE-T public-safety speech…
Dated
15 Aug 2023

Figures it feeds

$124 per hour of audioAudio and speech, made to order, per hour of audio
5.1xHow much more buyers pay than makers are paid for audio and speech, per hour of audio