Two platforms for research in Human Communication Science: The AusTalk corpus and the Alveo Virtual Laboratory

Author

Burnham, D. ; Estival, D. ; Cassidy, S. ; Sefton, P. ; Verspoor, K.

Author_Institution

MARCS Inst., Univ. of Western, Sydney, NSW, Australia

fYear

2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Over the last 4 years we have built two platforms that are pivotal for Human Communication Science research: AusTalk, a 3000 hour auditory-visual corpus of Australian English, and Alveo, an extensible Virtual Laboratory housing corpora and analysis tools glued together by a versatile workflow engine. This paper describes the genesis and operation of each of these in some detail and sets out the advantages they provide (i) for Human Communication Science in their present form, and (ii) the maieutic role they can play in research collaboration across disciplines, across institutions, and across languages and national boundaries, especially in our region.

Keywords

natural language processing; speech processing; virtual reality; Alveo virtual laboratory; AusTalk corpus; Australian English; auditory-visual corpus; extensible virtual laboratory housing corpora; human communication science research; languages; maieutic role; national boundary; workflow engine; Australia; Cameras; Collaboration; Computers; Microphones; Pipelines; Speech; Speech and language; analysis tools; corpora; music; sound; virtual laboratories;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Co-ordination and Standardization of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques (COCOSDA), 2014 17th Oriental Chapter of the International Committee for the

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSDA.2014.7051412

Filename

7051412