Transcriber: Development and use of a tool for assisting speech corpora production
Identifieur interne : 000477 ( Istex/Corpus ); précédent : 000476; suivant : 000478Transcriber: Development and use of a tool for assisting speech corpora production
Auteurs : Claude Barras ; Edouard Geoffrois ; Zhibiao Wu ; Mark LibermanSource :
- Speech Communication [ 0167-6393 ] ; 2000.
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We present “Transcriber”, a tool for assisting in the creation of speech corpora, and describe some aspects of its development and use. Transcriber was designed for the manual segmentation and transcription of long duration broadcast news recordings, including annotation of speech turns, topics and acoustic conditions. It is highly portable, relying on the scripting language Tcl/Tk with extensions such as Snack for advanced audio functions and tcLex for lexical analysis, and has been tested on various Unix systems and Windows. The data format follows the XML standard with Unicode support for multilingual transcriptions. Distributed as free software in order to encourage the production of corpora, ease their sharing, increase user feedback and motivate software contributions, Transcriber has been in use for over a year in several countries. As a result of this collective experience, new requirements arose to support additional data formats, video control, and a better management of conversational speech. Using the annotation graphs framework recently formalized, adaptation of the tool towards new tasks and support of different data formats will become easier.
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Transcriber was designed for the manual segmentation and transcription of long duration broadcast news recordings, including annotation of speech turns, topics and acoustic conditions. It is highly portable, relying on the scripting language Tcl/Tk with extensions such as Snack for advanced audio functions and tcLex for lexical analysis, and has been tested on various Unix systems and Windows. The data format follows the XML standard with Unicode support for multilingual transcriptions. Distributed as free software in order to encourage the production of corpora, ease their sharing, increase user feedback and motivate software contributions, Transcriber has been in use for over a year in several countries. As a result of this collective experience, new requirements arose to support additional data formats, video control, and a better management of conversational speech. Using the annotation graphs framework recently formalized, adaptation of the tool towards new tasks and support of different data formats will become easier.</abstract><abstract lang="fr">Nous présentons “Transcriber”, un outil d'aide à la création de corpus de parole, et nous décrivons des éléments de son développement et de son utilisation. Transcriber a été conçu pour permettre la segmentation manuelle et la transcription d'enregistrements de nouvelles radio-diffusées de longue durée, ainsi que l'annotation des tours de parole, des thèmes et des conditions acoustiques. Cet outil très portable, reposant sur le langage de script Tcl/Tk et des extensions telles que Snack pour les fonctionnalités audio et tcLex pour l'analyse lexicale, a été testé sur différents systèmes Unix et sous Windows. Le format de données respecte le standard XML avec un support d'Unicode pour les transcriptions multilingues. Distribué sous license libre pour encourager la production de corpus, faciliter leur échange, augmenter le retour d'expérience des utilisateurs et motiver les contributions logicielles extérieures, Transcriber est utilisé depuis plus d'un an dans plusieurs pays. Suite à cette utilisation, de nouveaux besoins sont apparus comme le support de formats de données supplémentaires, de la vidéo, et un meilleur traitement de la parole conversationnelle. En utilisant le modèle des graphes d'annotation formalisé récemment, l'adaptation de l'outil vers de nouvelles tâches et le support de différents formats de données sera facilité.</abstract><note>This work was done while the first author was working with DGA.</note><note type="content">Fig. 1: Screen shot of the user interface.</note><note type="content">Fig. 2: The four segmentation levels of a transcription.</note><note type="content">Fig. 3: Sample of a transcription file.</note><note type="content">Fig. 4: Two solutions tested for the representation of overlapping speech.</note><subject><genre>Keywords</genre><topic>Transcription tool</topic><topic>Speech corpora</topic><topic>Broadcast news</topic><topic>Linguistic annotation formats</topic></subject><relatedItem type="host"><titleInfo><title>Speech Communication</title></titleInfo><titleInfo type="abbreviated"><title>SPECOM</title></titleInfo><name type="conference"><namePart>Speech Annotation and Corpus Tools</namePart><namePart>Speech Annotation</namePart></name><name type="personal"><namePart>S. Bird and J. Harrington</namePart><role><roleTerm type="text">editor</roleTerm></role></name><genre type="journal">journal</genre><originInfo><dateIssued encoding="w3cdtf">200101</dateIssued></originInfo><identifier type="ISSN">0167-6393</identifier><identifier type="PII">S0167-6393(00)X0050-7</identifier><part><date>200101</date><detail type="issue"><title>Speech Annotation and Corpus Tools</title></detail><detail type="volume"><number>33</number><caption>vol.</caption></detail><detail type="issue"><number>1–2</number><caption>no.</caption></detail><extent unit="issue pages"><start>1</start><end>176</end></extent><extent unit="pages"><start>5</start><end>22</end></extent></part></relatedItem><identifier type="istex">451C86626179A17CCC13ACCCE699A1A2EBDFA996</identifier><identifier type="DOI">10.1016/S0167-6393(00)00067-4</identifier><identifier type="PII">S0167-6393(00)00067-4</identifier><accessCondition type="use and reproduction" contentType="">© 2001Elsevier Science B.V.</accessCondition><recordInfo><recordContentSource>ELSEVIER</recordContentSource><recordOrigin>Elsevier Science B.V., ©2001</recordOrigin></recordInfo></mods></metadata><enrichments><istex:catWosTEI uri="https://api.istex.fr/document/451C86626179A17CCC13ACCCE699A1A2EBDFA996/enrichments/catWos"><teiHeader><profileDesc><textClass><classCode scheme="WOS">COMPUTER SCIENCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS</classCode><classCode scheme="WOS">ACOUSTICS</classCode></textClass></profileDesc></teiHeader></istex:catWosTEI></enrichments><serie></serie></istex></record>Pour manipuler ce document sous Unix (Dilib)
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