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ISCApad #182 |
| Saturday, August 10, 2013 by Chris Wellekens |
5 Resources
| 5-1-1 | G. Bailly, P. Perrier & E. Vatikiotis-Batesonn eds : Audiovisual Speech Processing 'Audiovisual
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| 5-1-2 | 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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| 5-1-3 | 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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| 5-1-4 | 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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| 5-1-5 | 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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| 5-1-6 | Albert Di Cristo: « La Prosodie de la Parole : Une Introduction », Editions de Boeck-Solal (296 p) Albert Di Cristo: « La Prosodie de la Parole : Une Introduction », Editions de Boeck-Solal (296 p).
Sommaire :
Avant –propos, Introduction, ;
Ch.1 : Eléments de définition ;
Ch 2. Situation de la prosodie dans le champ des sciences du langage et dans l’étude de la communication ;
Ch 3. La prosodie sur les deux versants de la communication orale interindividuelle (production et compréhension) ;
Ch 4. La prosodie et le cerveau ;
Ch 5. La matérialité de la prosodie ;
Ch 6. Les niveau d’analyse et de représentation de la prosodie ;
Ch 7. Les théories, les modèles de la prosodie et leurs appareils formels ;
Ch 8 La fonctionnalité plurielle de la prosodie ;
Ch 9. Les relations de la prosodie avec les sens ;
Epilogue.
Suggestions de lecture ;
Index des termes ;
Index des noms propres.
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| 5-2-1 | ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update (2013-05) *****************************************************************
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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 (July 2013)
In this newsletter:
- Fall 2013 Data Scholarship Program -
New publications:
- Chinese Proposition Bank 3.0 -
- GALE Arabic-English Parallel Aligned Treebank -- Broadcast News Part 1 -
Fall 2013 Data Scholarship Program
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In this release, the source Arabic data was translated into English. Arabic and English treebank annotations were performed independently. The parallel texts were then word aligned. The material in this corpus corresponds to a portion of the Arabic treebanked data in Arabic Treebank - Broadcast News v1.0 (LDC2012T07).
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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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| 5-2-6 | Real-world 16-channel noise recordings We are happy to announce the release of DEMAND, a set of real-world
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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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| 5-3-4 | Voice analysis toolkit After just completing my PhD I have made the algorithms I have developed during it available online: https://github.com/jckane/Voice_Analysis_Toolkit
The so-called Voice Analysis Toolkit contains algorithms for glottal source and voice quality analysis. In making the code available online I hope that people in the speech processing community can benefit from it. I would really appreciate if you could include a link to this in the software section of the next ISCApad (section 5-3).
thanks for this.
John Researcher
Centre for Language and Communication Studies,
School of Linguistics, Speech and Communication Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, College Green Dublin 2 Phone: (+353) 1 896 1348 Website: http://www.tcd.ie/slscs/postgraduate/phd-masters-research/student-pages/johnkane.php Check out our workshop!! http://muster.ucd.ie/workshops/iast/
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| 5-3-5 | Bob signal-processing and machine learning toolbox (v.1.2..0)
It is developed by the Biometrics
Group at Idiap in Switzerland. -- ------------------- Dr. Elie Khoury Post Doctorant Biometric Person Recognition Group IDIAP Research Institute (Switzerland) Tel : +41 27 721 77 23
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| 5-3-6 | An open-source repository of advanced speech processing algorithms called COVAREP CALL for contributions
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We are pleased to announce the creation of an open-source repository of advanced speech processing algorithms called COVAREP (A Cooperative Voice Analysis Repository for Speech Technologies). COVAREP has been created as a GitHub project (https://github.com/covarep/covarep) where researchers in speech processing can store original implementations of published algorithms.
Over the past few decades a vast array of advanced speech processing algorithms have been developed, often offering significant improvements over the existing state-of-the-art. Such algorithms can have a reasonably high degree of complexity and, hence, can be difficult to accurately re-implement based on article descriptions. Another issue is the so-called 'bug magnet effect' with re-implementations frequently having significant differences from the original. The consequence of all this has been that many promising developments have been under-exploited or discarded, with researchers tending to stick to conventional analysis methods.
By developing the COVAREP repository we are hoping to address this by encouraging authors to include original implementations of their algorithms, thus resulting in a single de facto version for the speech community to refer to.
We envisage a range of benefits to the repository:
1) Reproducible research: COVAREP will allow fairer comparison of algorithms in published articles.
2) Encouraged usage: the free availability of these algorithms will encourage researchers from a wide range of speech-related disciplines (both in academia and industry) to exploit them for their own applications.
3) Feedback: as a GitHub project users will be able to offer comments on algorithms, report bugs, suggest improvements etc.
SCOPE
We welcome contributions from a wide range of speech processing areas, including (but not limited to): Speech analysis, synthesis, conversion, transformation, enhancement, speech quality, glottal source/voice quality analysis, etc.
REQUIREMENTS
In order to achieve a reasonable standard of consistency and homogeneity across algorithms we have compiled a list of requirements for prospective contributors to the repository. However, we intend the list of the requirements not to be so strict as to discourage contributions.
LICENCE
Getting contributing institutions to agree to a homogenous IP policy would be close to impossible. As a result COVAREP is a repository and not a toolbox, and each algorithm will have its own licence associated with it. Though flexible to different licence types, contributions will need to have a licence which is compatible with the repository, i.e. {GPL, LGPL, X11, Apache, MIT} or similar. We would encourage contributors to try to obtain LGPL licences from their institutions in order to be more industry friendly.
CONTRIBUTE!
We believe that the COVAREP repository has a great potential benefit to the speech research community and we hope that you will consider contributing your published algorithms to it. If you have any questions, comments issues etc regarding COVAREP please contact us on one of the email addresses below. Please forward this email to others who may be interested.
Existing contributions include: algorithms for spectral envelope modelling, adaptive sinusoidal modelling, fundamental frequncy/voicing decision/glottal closure instant detection algorithms, methods for detecting non-modal phonation types etc.
Gilles Degottex <degottex@csd.uoc.gr>, John Kane <kanejo@tcd.ie>, Thomas Drugman <thomas.drugman@umons.ac.be>, Tuomo Raitio <tuomo.raitio@aalto.fi>, Stefan Scherer <scherer@ict.usc.edu>
Website - http://covarep.github.io/covarep
GitHub - https://github.com/covarep/covarep
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