Agreement was investigated among five labelers for the use of two prosodic annotation systems: the ToBI (Tones and Break Indices) system [1,2] and the RaP (Rhythm and Pitch) system [3]. Each system permits the labeling of pitch accents and two levels of phrasal boundaries; RaP also permits labeling of speech rhythm and distinguishes multiple levels of prominence on syllables. After training wit...

The paper gives a comprehensive overview over the results, the concepts and the methods which were developed and used to create the Pronouncing Dictionary of Austrian German (ÖAWB/AGPD) and the Austrian Pronouncing Database ADABA. The AGPD contains 42.000 entries which are based on a large audio corpus of 75.964 realisations of two model speakers each from Austria, Germany and Switzerland. The ...

Transcriber is a tool for manual annotation of large speech files. It was originally designed for the broadcast news transcription task. The annotation file format was derived from previous formats used for this task, and many related features were hard-coded. In this paper we present a generalization of the tool based on the annotation graph formalism, and on a more modular design. This will a...

We introduce a new method for human-machine collaborative speech transcription that is significantly faster than existing transcription methods. In this approach, automatic audio processing algorithms are used to robustly detect speech in audio recordings and split speech into short, easy to transcribe segments. Sequences of speech segments are loaded into a transcription interface that enables...

This paper reports labeler agreement in the transcription of Korean prosody using Korean ToBI (K-ToBI) [9]. Twenty utterances representing five different types of speech were produced by 18 speakers and transcribed by 21 labelers differing in their levels of experience with K-ToBI. Following the stringent metric used for English ToBI evaluation [14,12], consistency was measured in terms of the ...

The SignWriting improved fast transcriber (SWift), presented in this paper, is an advanced editor for computer-aided writing and transcribing of any Sign Language (SL) using the SignWriting (SW). The application is an editor which allows composing and saving desired signs using the SW elementary components, called “glyphs”. These make up a sort of alphabet, which does not depend on the national...

Forced alignment software is now widely used in contemporary sociolinguistics, and is quickly becoming a crucial methodological tool as an increasing number of studies begin to utilise ‘big data.’ This study investigates the possibility of taking forced alignment one step further towards the goal of complete automation; specifically, it expands the functionality of FAVE-align to fully automate ...

Spock is an open source tool for the easy deployment of time-aligned corpora. It is fully web-based, and has very limited server-side requirements. It allows the end-user to search the corpus in a text-driven manner, obtaining both the transcription and the corresponding sound fragment in the result page. Spock has an administration environment to help manage the sound files and their respectiv...

Lyrics transcription of polyphonic music is challenging as the background affects lyrics intelligibility. Typically, can be performed by a two-step pipeline, i.e. singing vocal extraction front end, followed transcriber back where end and are trained separately. Such pipeline suffers from both imperfect mismatch between end. In this work, we propose novel end-to-end integrated fine-tuning frame...