Spoken Language

Spoken language is fundamental to human communication. Research and technology development in spoken language require high quality speech recordings, fine-grained time-aligned annotations, and long-term and controled access to the data.

This workshop will cover the both the technological and research aspects of the creation and exploitation of speech resources.

1. In the technology part of the workshop (week 1), audio and video recording equipment, data and metadata formats, and the practical, social, and legal aspects of speech recordings will be presented.
2. In the exploitation part of the workshop (week 2), techniques for basic annotations as well as domain-specific annotation schemes will be discussed; furthermore, an in-depth introduction to analysis methods and tools will be given.