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[Peter Bouda]

Hi Peter,

thanks for the minutes, and sorry that I couldn’t participate in the meeting. I simply forgot, as I was working on some other things. Next time…

One thing came to my mind, about the alignment. Another use case for that would be language documentation. Normally a researcher will do audio/video recording and then transcribe the data with a software like Elan (http://www.lat-mpi.eu/tools/elan/). The alignment is done manually in this case. Most researchers work together with a native speaker and/or students in this case, those user need to be trained in Elan, which costs a lot of time. So there are cases where MS Word or something similar is used for transcription. It would be a *big* help if researchers and their team members could just use any editor to write down the transcriptions and then align them later (reliably). Most languages are very different from English, so I think the systems needs to support alternative phoneme inventories in this case. Btw, what kind of data does the aligner need for this? Just phoneme inventories or full phonetic dictionaries?

Just a thought. I could maybe get some data (word+audio in several languages) and test users for such a system.

Best,
Peter



Am Montag, 17. Februar 2014 um 19:18 schrieb Peter Grasch:

> Hey,
>  
> thanks everyone for coming.
>  
> Minutes (I'll keep them short):
> * Sadly little has happened in the last few months, but Simon (the
> person) has been very active in related projects and may be able to open
> source / share a few results with us, especially related to audio alignment.
> * Our main, immediate goals so far are:
> ** Setting up a large (ish) scale audio alignment system for acoustic
> modeling (me and, if he can, Simon)
> ** Setting up the KDE speech website (Mario Fux)
> ** Working on a user-deployable technology prototype Simon dictation
> software (me, mostly)
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> Please find the full log of todays meeting attached to this email.
>  
> Best regards,
> Peter
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