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An Automatic Close Copy Speech Synthesis Tool for Large-Scale Speech Corpus Evaluation

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An Automatic Close Copy Speech Synthesis Tool for Large-Scale Speech Corpus Evaluation
The production of rich multilingual speech corpus resources on a large scale is a requirement for many linguistic, phonetic and technological tasks, in both research and application domains. It is also time-consuming and therefore expensive. In particular the human component in the resource creation process is prone to inconsistencies, a situation which has frequently been documented in studies of cross-transcriber consistency in manual time-aligned signal annotation. In the present case, corpora of three languages were to be evaluated and corrected: (1) Polish, a large automatically annotated and manually corrected single-speaker TTS unit-selection corpus in the BOSS Label File (BLF) format, (2) German and (3) English, the second and third being manually annotated multi-speaker story-telling learner corpora in Praat TextGrid format. A method is provided for supporting the evaluation and correction of time-aligned annotations for the three corpora by permitting a rapid audio screening...
Dafydd Gibbon, Jolanta Bachan
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Type Conference
Year 2008
Where LREC
Authors Dafydd Gibbon, Jolanta Bachan
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