An analysis of transcription consistency in spontaneous speech from the buckeye corpus

An analysis of coding consistency in the transcription of spontaneous speech from the Buckeye corpus

The Buckeye corpus of conversational speech: labeling conventions and a test of transcriber reliability

This paper describes the Buckeye corpus of spontaneous American English speech, a 307,000-word corpus containing the speech of 40 talkers from central Ohio, USA. The method used to elicit and record the speech is described, followed by a description of the protocol that was developed to phonemically label what talkers said. The results of a test of labeling consistency are then presented. The c...

Understanding VOT Variation in Spontaneous Speech

This paper reports a corpus study on the variation of VOT in voiceless stops in spontaneous speech. Two speakers’ data from the Buckeye corpus are used: one is an older female speaker with a low speaking rate while the other is a younger male speaker with an extremely high speaking rate. Linear regression analysis shows that place of articulation, word frequency, phonetic context, speech rate a...

The buckeye corpus of speech: updates and enhancements

This paper describes recent progress in the development of the Buckeye Corpus of Speech, a phonetically labeled corpus of conversational American English speech, first described in [1]. With the publication of the second phase of transcription, the corpus has nearly doubled in size from the first release. We briefly give an overview of the corpus, report on additional studies of inter-labeler a...

Improving transcription agreement of non-native English speech corpus transcribed by non-natives

This paper proposes an economical and effective phonetic transcription method for dealing with a large amount of nonnative English speech corpus. The method provides a consistent transcription agreement, although the corpus is transcribed by non-natives. To minimize the possibility of confusion in transcription process, forced aligned phone sequences and a set of possible mispronunciation candi...