Building Transcribed Speech Corpora Quickly and Cheaply for Many Languages
Venue
Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2010), International Speech Communication Association, pp. 1914-1917
Publication Year
2010
Authors
Thad Hughes, Kaisuke Nakajima, Linne Ha, Atul Vasu, Pedro Moreno, Mike LeBeau
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Abstract
We present a system for quickly and cheaply building transcribed speech corpora
containing utterances from many speakers in a variety of acoustic conditions. The
system consists of a client application running on an Android mobile device with an
intermittent Internet connection to a server. The client application collects
demographic information about the speaker, fetches textual prompts from the server
for the speaker to read, records the speaker’s voice, and uploads the audio and
associated metadata to the server. The system has so far been used to collect over
3000 hours of transcribed audio in 17 languages around the world.
