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ISCApad #241 |
| Tuesday, July 10, 2018 by Chris Wellekens |
5-3 Software
| 5-3-1 | 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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| 5-3-2 | VocalTractLab 2.0 : A tool for articulatory speech synthesis VocalTractLab 2.0 : A tool for articulatory speech synthesis
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| 5-3-3 | 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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| 5-3-4 | COVAREP: A Cooperative Voice Analysis Repository for Speech Technologies ======================
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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| 5-3-5 | Release of the version 2 of FASST (Flexible Audio Source Separation Toolbox).Release of the version 2 of FASST (Flexible Audio Source Separation Toolbox). http://bass-db.gforge.inria.fr/fasst/ This toolbox is intended to speed up the conception and to automate the implementation of new model-based audio source separation algorithms. It has the following additions compared to version 1: * Core in C++ * User scripts in MATLAB or python * Speedup * Multichannel audio input We provide 2 examples: 1. two-channel instantaneous NMF 2. real-world speech enhancement (2nd CHiME Challenge, Track 1)
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| 5-3-6 | Cantor Digitalis, an open-source real-time singing synthesizer controlled by hand gestures. We are glad to announce the public realease of the Cantor Digitalis, an open-source real-time singing synthesizer controlled by hand gestures. It can be used e.g. for making music or for singing voice pedagogy. A wide variety of voices are available, from the classic vocal quartet (soprano, alto, tenor, bass), to the extreme colors of childish, breathy, roaring, etc. voices. All the features of vocal sounds are entirely under control, as the synthesis method is based on a mathematic model of voice production, without prerecording segments. The instrument is controlled using chironomy, i.e. hand gestures, with the help of interfaces like stylus or fingers on a graphic tablet, or computer mouse. Vocal dimensions such as the melody, vocal effort, vowel, voice tension, vocal tract size, breathiness etc. can easily and continuously be controlled during performance, and special voices can be prepared in advance or using presets. Check out the capabilities of Cantor Digitalis, through performances extracts from the ensemble Chorus Digitalis: http://youtu.be/_LTjM3Lihis?t=13s. In pratice, this release provides:
Regards,
The Cantor Digitalis team (who loves feedback — cantordigitalis@limsi.fr) Christophe d'Alessandro, Lionel Feugère, Olivier Perrotin http://cantordigitalis.limsi.fr/
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| 5-3-7 | MultiVec: a Multilingual and MultiLevel Representation Learning Toolkit for NLP
We are happy to announce the release of our new toolkit “MultiVec” for computing continuous representations for text at different granularity levels (word-level or sequences of words). MultiVec includes Mikolov et al. [2013b]’s word2vec features, Le and Mikolov [2014]’s paragraph vector (batch and online) and Luong et al. [2015]’s model for bilingual distributed representations. MultiVec also includes different distance measures between words and sequences of words. The toolkit is written in C++ and is aimed at being fast (in the same order of magnitude as word2vec), easy to use, and easy to extend. It has been evaluated on several NLP tasks: the analogical reasoning task, sentiment analysis, and crosslingual document classification. The toolkit also includes C++ and Python libraries, that you can use to query bilingual and monolingual models.
The project is fully open to future contributions. The code is provided on the project webpage (https://github.com/eske/multivec) with installation instructions and command-line usage examples.
When you use this toolkit, please cite:
@InProceedings{MultiVecLREC2016, Title = {{MultiVec: a Multilingual and MultiLevel Representation Learning Toolkit for NLP}}, Author = {Alexandre Bérard and Christophe Servan and Olivier Pietquin and Laurent Besacier}, Booktitle = {The 10th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2016)}, Year = {2016}, Month = {May} }
The paper is available here: https://github.com/eske/multivec/raw/master/docs/Berard_and_al-MultiVec_a_Multilingual_and_Multilevel_Representation_Learning_Toolkit_for_NLP-LREC2016.pdf
Best regards,
Alexandre Bérard, Christophe Servan, Olivier Pietquin and Laurent Besacier
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| 5-3-8 | An android application for speech data collection LIG_AIKUMA We are pleased to announce the release of LIG_AIKUMA, an android application for speech data collection, specially dedicated to language documentation. LIG_AIKUMA is an improved version of the Android application (AIKUMA) initially developed by Steven Bird and colleagues. Features were added to the app in order to facilitate the collection of parallel speech data in line with the requirements of a French-German project (ANR/DFG BULB - Breaking the Unwritten Language Barrier).
The resulting app, called LIG-AIKUMA, runs on various mobile phones and tablets and proposes a range of different speech collection modes (recording, respeaking, translation and elicitation). It was used for field data collections in Congo-Brazzaville resulting in a total of over 80 hours of speech.
Users who just want to use the app without access to the code can download it directly from the forge direct link: https://forge.imag.fr/frs/download.php/706/MainActivity.apk
Code is also available on demand (contact elodie.gauthier@imag.fr and laurent.besacier@imag.fr).
More details on LIG_AIKUMA can be found on the following paper: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050916300448
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| 5-3-9 | Web services via ALL GO from IRISA-CNRS It is our pleasure to introduce A||GO (https://allgo.inria.fr/ or http://allgo.irisa.fr/), a platform providing a collection of web-services for the automatic analysis of various data, including multimedia content across modalities. The platform builds on the back-end web service deployment infrastructure developed and maintained by Inria?s Service for Experimentation and Development (SED). Originally dedicated to multimedia content, A||GO progressively broadened to other fields such as computational biology, networks and telecommunications, computational graphics or computational physics.
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| 5-3-10 | Clickable map - Illustrations of the IPA Clickable map - Illustrations of the IPA
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| 5-3-11 | LIG-Aikuma running on mobile phones and tablets
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