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Prototype Speech Corpus, Dermot Campbell, Yi Wang, Ciaran Mcdonnell
Prototype Speech Corpus, Dermot Campbell, Yi Wang, Ciaran Mcdonnell
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DIT’s prototype speech corpus allows language learners and researchers access to real, informal dialogues–not just the transcripts of dialogues. Because the dialogues were created at a very high acoustic level they are capable of being slowed down using a time-scaling tool for more detailed study of speech production. The recording methodology used produces a natural dialogue exhibiting all the features of native-to-native interchanges. The speech corpus is capable of serving the needs of students and researchers of spoken language. LinguaTag is the first prototype tool within the language work package in the FP6 EU project SALERO to automatically tag speech …