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Automatic Transcription of Czech Language Oral History in the MALACH Project: Resources and Initial Experiments

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Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2002)

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In this paper we describe the initial stages of the ASR component of the MALACH (Multilingual Access to Large Spoken Archives) project. This project will attempt to provide improved access to the large multilingual spoken archives collected by the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation (VHF) by advancing the state of the art in automated speech recognition. In order to train the ASR system, it is neccesary to manually transcribe a large amount of speech data, identify the appropriate vocabulary, and obtain relevant text for language modeling. We give a detailed description of the speech annotation process; show the specific properties of the spontaneous speech contained in the archives; and present a baseline speech recognition results.

This work has been founded by NSF (U.S.A) under the Information Technology Research (ITR) program, NSF IIS Award No. 0122466 and by the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic, project No. MSM234200004 and No. LN00A063

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  1. Department of Cybernetics, University of West Bohemia, Univerzitní 8, 306 14, Plzeň, Czech Republic

    Josef Psutka, Pavel Ircing, Josef V. Psutka & Vlasta Radová

  2. Center for Language and Speech Processing, Johns Hopkins University, 309 Barton Hall, 3400 N. Charles St., 21218, Baltimore, MD

    William J. Byrne

  3. Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistic, Charles University, Malostranské náměstí 25, 118 00, Praha, Czech Republic

    Jan Hajič

  4. Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, P.O. Box 3168, 90078-3168, Los Angeles, CA

    Samuel Gustman

  5. Human Language Technologies Group, IBM T.J. Watson Research Laboratory, Yorktown Heights, NY

    Bhuvana Ramabhadran

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  1. Faculty of Informatics Department of Programming Systems and Communication, Masaryk University, Botanická 68a, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic

    Petr Sojka

  2. Faculty of Informatics Department of Information Technologies, Masaryk University, Botanická 68a, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic

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Psutka, J. et al. (2002). Automatic Transcription of Czech Language Oral History in the MALACH Project: Resources and Initial Experiments. In: Sojka, P., Kopeček, I., Pala, K. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2448. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46154-X_34

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