Speech Corpora
Extending Search System based on Interactive Visualization for Speech Corpora
... We conducted a preliminary questionnaire survey of 15 people (nine males and six females) who have experience of using speech corpora. After completing a simple retrieval task, we asked them if the proposed ...
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Estimation of Speaking Style in Speech Corpora Focusing on speech transcriptions
... several speech samples (including speech transcriptions) from speech corpora ...those speech transcriptions, at the middle part of each speech transcription, we extract about 300 ...
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Spontaneous Speech Corpora for language learners of Spanish, Chinese and Japanese
... using corpora in language learning (Sinclair 2004 and Gabrielatos 2005), we propose the use of spontaneous speech corpora to provide a source of real-life language examples and serve as a tool to ...
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Parallel Speech Corpora of Japanese Dialects
... Clean speech data is necessary for spoken language processing, however, there is no public Japanese dialect corpus collected for speech ...Parallel speech corpora of dialect are also important ...
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memasysco: XML schema based metadata management system for speech corpora
... for speech corpora “memasysco” has been developed at the Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) and is applied for the first time to document the speech corpus “German ...of speech corpora ...
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Structural Metadata Annotation of Speech Corpora: Comparing Broadcast News and Broadcast Conversations
... raw speech recognition output to forms that are more useful to humans and to downstream automatic ...of speech, labeling non-content words like filled pauses and discourse markers for optional removal, and ...
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Design and Development of Speech Corpora for Air Traffic Control Training
... either speech or non-speech using an in-house voice activity detector (Prc´ın et ...as speech were consequently imported into the Webtransc annotation tool (Valenta and ˇSm´ıdl, 2015) that serves for ...
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Automatic Extraction of Parallel Speech Corpora from Dubbed Movies
... Parallel Speech Corpora As already mentioned above, several attempts have been made to compile large spoken parallel ...Such corpora of considerable size are, ...Microsoft Speech Language ...
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Word Boundaries in French: Evidence from Large Speech Corpora
... large corpora? If so, how do they vary with respect to influential factors, such as word sylla- ble length, the presence of final schwas, syllable duration or part-of-speech (POS) categories? The aim of ...
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Creating Lithuanian and Latvian Speech Corpora from Inaccurately Annotated Web Data
... Cloud Speech service for comparison. Unfortunately, Cloud Speech service filters out parts with low confidence, so direct calculation of WER, shows very poor result (44%) with a lot of ...
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The TASX-environment: an XML-based toolset for time aligned speech corpora
... quisition of prosody by second language learners of both German and English. It focuses on three areas of prosody: stress assignment on both the word and the phrase level, sentence intonation and speech rhythm. So ...
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Automatic Segmentation and Labeling for Mandarin Chinese Speech Corpora for Concatenation-based TTS
... English speech, and they have seldom addressed the question of which phonetic class tends to be more error ...English corpora can be adapted for application to Chinese ...
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GREEK ToBI: A System for the Annotation of Greek Speech Corpora
... Figure 4: This example (gloss: “Dalida was scolding the baby when the phone rang”) illustrates (a) undershot realizations of L*+H and L* in tonal crowding; (b) a typical !H*; (c) extensive sandhi. For details see text. ...
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Development of Speech corpora for different Speech Recognition tasks in Malayalam language
... The Carnegie Mellon University Sphinx-4[12] system is a frame- based, HMM-based, speech recognition system capable of handling large vocabularies. The word modeling is performed based on sub word units (phone ...
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Learning Phonological Rule Probabilities from Speech Corpora with Exploratory Computational Phonology
... The idea of using optional phonological rules to construct a speechrecognition lexicon derives from Cohen 1989, who applied optional phonological rules to a baseform dictionary to produc[r] ...
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Praaline: An Open Source System for Managing, Annotating, Visualising and Analysing Speech Corpora
... Several tools are being used currently in spo- ken language research. In the phonetics and prosody domain, the most widely used tool is Praat (Boersma and Weenink, 2018); in the prag- matics and discourse studies ...
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GraSp: Grammar Learning from Unlabelled Speech Corpora
... This paper presents the ongoing project Computational Models of First Language Acquisition, together with its current product, the learning algorithm GraSp. GraSp is designed specifically for inducing grammars from ...
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Crowdsourcing a Multi lingual Speech Corpus: Recording, Transcription and Annotation of the CrowdIS Corpora
... building speech corpora 2 is a time- consuming and expensive process: one estimate puts the cost of transcription at A C1 per word, before the cost of any extra annotation (Ballier and Martin, ...
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Evaluating expressive speech synthesis from audiobook corpora for conversational phrases
... expressive speech synthesis in conversational phrases, that the outcome be consistent and roughly pre- ...HMM-based speech synthe- sis to prepare the expressive speech samples for our sec- ond ...
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The EASR Corpora of European Portuguese, French, Hungarian and Polish Elderly Speech
... available speech recognisers do not usually work well with elderly ...by speech recognisers are typically trained with speech collected from younger adults ...develop speech-driven ...
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