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Grappling with Web Technologies: The Problems of Remote Speech Recording

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Modern web browsers are becoming operating systems of their own kind, allowing unified access to the underlying hardware. The sound device can thus be used by web-based communication systems, such a Google meet, Zoom and others. This attracts the idea of using such capabilities to record a speech synthesis corpus through the web, with there being cases of use where it is really beneficial – for example, the building of personalised speech synthesis. The present paper shows that although it may appear easy, there are some dark corners to take care of.

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This research was supported by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (project No. TH02010307), and by the grant of the University of West Bohemia, (project No. SGS-2019-027).

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  1. New Technologies for the Information Society, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic

    Daniel Tihelka

  2. Department of Cybernetics, Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic

    Markéta Jůzová & Jakub Vít

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Tihelka, D., Jůzová, M., Vít, J. (2020). Grappling with Web Technologies: The Problems of Remote Speech Recording. In: Karpov, A., Potapova, R. (eds) Speech and Computer. SPECOM 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12335. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60276-5_57

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