The "Sprekend Nederland" project and its application to accent location

no code implementations • 8 Feb 2016 • David A. van Leeuwen, Rosemary Orr

This paper describes the data collection effort that is part of the project Sprekend Nederland (The Netherlands Talking), and discusses its potential use in Automatic Accent Location.

Semi-automatic annotation of the UCU accents speech corpus

no code implementations • LREC 2014 • Rosemary Orr, Marijn Huijbregts, Roel van Beek, , Lisa Teunissen, Kate Backhouse, David van Leeuwen

We address three approaches to annotation and labeling: manual, semi automatic and automatic procedures for labeling the UCU Accent Project speech data, a multilingual multitask longitudinal speech corpus.

Event Detection Speech Recognition