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ISCApad #178 |
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 by Chris Wellekens |
5-1-1 | Zeki Majeed Hassan and Barry Heselwood (Eds): Instrumental Studies in Arabic Phonetics Instrumental Studies in Arabic Phonetics
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5-1-2 | G. Bailly, P. Perrier & E. Vatikiotis-Batesonn eds : Audiovisual Speech Processing 'Audiovisual
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5-1-3 | Fuchs, Susanne / Weirich, Melanie / Pape, Daniel / Perrier, Pascal (eds.): Speech Planning and Dynamics, Publisher P.Lang Fuchs, Susanne / Weirich, Melanie / Pape, Daniel / Perrier, Pascal (eds.) Speech Planning and Dynamics Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2012. 277 pp., 50 fig., 8 tables Speech Production and Perception. Vol. 1 Edited by Susanne Fuchs and Pascal Perrier Imprimé : ISBN 978-3-631-61479-2 hb. SFR 60.00 / €* 52.95 / €** 54.50 / € 49.50 / £ 39.60 / US$ 64.95 eBook : ISBN 978-3-653-01438-9 SFR 63.20 / €* 58.91 / €** 59.40 / € 49.50 / £ 39.60 / US$ 64.95 Commander en ligne : www.peterlang.com
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5-1-4 | Video archive of Odyssey Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop, Singapore 2012Odyssey Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop 2012, the workshop of ISCA SIG Speaker and Language Characterization, was held in Singapore on 25-28 June 2012. Odyssey 2012 is glad to announce that its video recordings have been included in the ISCA Video Archive. http://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/archive/video-archive
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5-1-5 | Tuomas Virtanen, Rita Singh, Bhiksha Raj (editors),Techniques for Noise Robustness in Automatic Speech Recognition,Wiley Techniques for Noise Robustness in Automatic Speech Recognition
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5-1-6 | Niebuhr, Olivier, Understanding Prosody:The Role of Context, Function and Communication Understanding Prosody: The Role of Context, Function and Communication Ed. by Niebuhr, Oliver Series:Language, Context and Cognition 13, De Gruyter http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/186201?format=G or http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=63238
The volume represents a state-of-the-art snapshot of the research on prosody for phoneticians, linguists and speech technologists. It covers well-known models and languages. How are prosodies linked to speech sounds? What are the relations between prosody and grammar? What does speech perception tell us about prosody, particularly about the constituting elements of intonation and rhythm? The papers of the volume address questions like these with a special focus on how the notion of context-based coding, the knowledge of prosodic functions and the communicative embedding of prosodic elements can advance our understanding of prosody.
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5-2-1 | ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update (2013-03) ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update
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5-2-2 | ELRA releases free Language Resources ELRA releases free Language Resources
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5-2-3 | LDC Newsletter (March 2013)
Reprint of March 2013 Newsletter
LDC's March 2013 newsletter may not have reached all intended recipients and is being reprinted below.
LDC’s 20th Anniversary: Concluding a Year of Celebration
We’ve enjoyed celebrating our 20th Anniversary this last year (April 2012 - March 2013) and would like to review some highlights before its close.
New publications
(1) 1993-2007 United
UN parliamentary documents are available from the UN Official Document System (UN ODS). UN ODS, in its main UNDOC database, contains the full text of all types of UN parliamentary documents. It has complete coverage datng from 1993 and variable coverage before that. Documents exist in one or more of the official languages of the UN: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish. UN ODS also contains a large number of German documents, marked with the language other, but these are not included in this dataset.
LDC has released parallel UN parliamentary documents in English, French and Spanish spanning the period 1988-1993, UN Parallel
The data is presented as raw text and word-aligned text. There are 673,670 raw text documents and 520,283 word aligned documents. The raw text is very close to what was extracted from the original word processing documents in UN ODS (e.g., Word, WordPerfect, PDF), converted to UTF-8 encoding. The word-aligned text was normalized, tokenized, aligned at the sentence-level, further broken into sub-sentential chunk-pairs, and then aligned at the word. The sentence, chunk, and word alignment operations were performed separately for each individual language pair.
1993-2007 United Nations Parallel Text is distributed on 3 DVD-ROM.
2013 Subscription Members will automatically receive two copies of this data provided they have completed the UN Parallel Text Corpus User Agreement. 2013 Standard Members may request a copy as part of their 16 free membership corpora. Non-members may license this data for US$175.
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(2) GALE Chinese-English
Some approaches to statistical machine translation include the incorporation of linguistic knowledge in word aligned text as a means to improve automatic word alignment and machine translation quality. This is accomplished with two annotation schemes: alignment and tagging. Alignment identifies minimum translation units and translation relations by using minimum-match and attachment annotation approaches. A set of word tags and alignment link tags are designed in the tagging scheme to describe these translation units and relations. Tagging adds contextual, syntactic and language-specific features to the alignment annotation.
This release consists of Chinese source web data (newsgroup, weblog) collected by LDC between 2005-2010. The distribution by words, character tokens and segments appears below:
Note that all token counts are based on the Chinese data only. One token is equivalent to one character and one word is equivalent to 1.5 characters.
The Chinese word alignment tasks consisted of the following components:
Identifying, aligning, and tagging 8 different types of links
Identifying, attaching, and tagging local-level unmatched words
Identifying and tagging sentence/discourse-level unmatched words
Identifying and tagging all instances of Chinese 的(DE) except
GALE Chinese-English Word Alignment and Tagging Training Part 4 -- Web is distributed via web download.
2013 Subscription Members will automatically receive two copies of this data on disc. 2013 Standard Members may request a copy as part of their 16 free membership corpora. Non-members may license this data for US$1750.
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5-2-4 | Appen ButlerHill
Appen ButlerHill A global leader in linguistic technology solutions RECENT CATALOG ADDITIONS—MARCH 2012 1. Speech Databases 1.1 Telephony
2. Pronunciation Lexica Appen Butler Hill has considerable experience in providing a variety of lexicon types. These include: Pronunciation Lexica providing phonemic representation, syllabification, and stress (primary and secondary as appropriate) Part-of-speech tagged Lexica providing grammatical and semantic labels Other reference text based materials including spelling/mis-spelling lists, spell-check dictionar-ies, mappings of colloquial language to standard forms, orthographic normalization lists. Over a period of 15 years, Appen Butler Hill has generated a significant volume of licensable material for a wide range of languages. For holdings information in a given language or to discuss any customized development efforts, please contact: sales@appenbutlerhill.com
4. Other Language Resources Morphological Analyzers – Farsi/Persian & Urdu Arabic Thesaurus Language Analysis Documentation – multiple languages
For additional information on these resources, please contact: sales@appenbutlerhill.com 5. Customized Requests and Package Configurations Appen Butler Hill is committed to providing a low risk, high quality, reliable solution and has worked in 130+ languages to-date supporting both large global corporations and Government organizations. We would be glad to discuss to any customized requests or package configurations and prepare a cus-tomized proposal to meet your needs.
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5-2-5 | OFROM 1er corpus de français de Suisse romande Nous souhaiterions vous signaler la mise en ligne d'OFROM, premier corpus de français parlé en Suisse romande. L'archive est, dans version actuelle, d'une durée d'environ 15 heures. Elle est transcrite en orthographe standard dans le logiciel Praat. Un concordancier permet d'y effectuer des recherches, et de télécharger les extraits sonores associés aux transcriptions.
Pour accéder aux données et consulter une description plus complète du corpus, nous vous invitons à vous rendre à l'adresse suivante : http://www.unine.ch/ofrom.
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5-3-1 | Matlab toolbox for glottal analysis I am pleased to announce you that we made a Matlab toolbox for glottal analysis now available on the web at:
http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/~drugman/Toolbox/
This toolbox includes the following modules:
- Pitch and voiced-unvoiced decision estimation - Speech polarity detection - Glottal Closure Instant determination - Glottal flow estimation
By the way, I am also glad to send you my PhD thesis entitled “Glottal Analysis and its Applications”: http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/~drugman/files/DrugmanPhDThesis.pdf
where you will find applications in speech synthesis, speaker recognition, voice pathology detection, and expressive speech analysis.
Hoping that this might be useful to you, and to see you soon,
Thomas Drugman
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5-3-2 | ROCme!: a free tool for audio corpora recording and management ROCme!: nouveau logiciel gratuit pour l'enregistrement et la gestion de corpus audio.
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5-3-3 | VocalTractLab 2.0 : A tool for articulatory speech synthesis VocalTractLab 2.0 : A tool for articulatory speech synthesis
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