Verbmobil is a long-term project of the German Federal Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Technology (BMBF, Projekträger DLR). Its aim is to give Germany an international top position in language technology and its economical application in the next millenium by cooperation and concentration of as many as possible specialists from industry and science. The long-sighted aim is the development of a mobile translation system for the translation of spontaneous speech in face-to-face situations.The following resources are spontaneous speech databases recorded in a dialogue task (appointment scheduling) . VERBMOBIL II - VM CD 51.1 - VM51.1 (BAS edition) consists of 1 CD-ROM with 15 spontaneous dialogues (15 close mic, 0 room mic, 0 phone line (fixed network, GSM) recordings) – 856 turns, transliteration (VM II Format) in English and German (Multilingual German/English with human interpreter (3 channels)).