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WebTransc — A WWW Interface for Speech Corpora Production and Processing

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Speech and Computer (SPECOM 2015)

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This paper describes a web application that was designed to prepare and process speech corpora, key data sources for automatic speech recognition (ASR), natural language processing (NLP), speech synthesis (TTS) and many other tasks. The application allows users to process the corpora with no other equipment than a web browser with internet connection. The application has been used, upgraded and improved for several years and its history is also described here. During that time, many valuable experiences with speech corpora processing have been gained and they are also mentioned as some good practices.

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Acknowledgements

This research was supported by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, project No. TE01020197, and by the grant of the University of West Bohemia, project No. SGS-2013-032.

The data used in this paper are available in the LINDAT/Clarin repository [8, 9].

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  1. Department of Cybernetics, Faculty of Applied Sciences, New Technologies for Information Society, University of West Bohemia, Technická 8, 306 14, Plzeň, Czech Republic

    Tomáš Valenta & Luboš Šmídl

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  2. Moscow State Linguistic University, Moscow, Russia

    Rodmonga Potapova

  3. University of Patras, Patras, Greece

    Nikos Fakotakis

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Valenta, T., Šmídl, L. (2015). WebTransc — A WWW Interface for Speech Corpora Production and Processing. In: Ronzhin, A., Potapova, R., Fakotakis, N. (eds) Speech and Computer. SPECOM 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9319. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23132-7_60

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