oai:scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu:10125/24793
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| Title: | Integrating Automatic Transcription into the Language Documentation Workflow: Experiments with Na Data and the Persephone Toolkit | |
| Bibliographic Citation: | Michaud, Alexis, Adams, Oliver, Cohn, Trevor Anthony, Neubig, Graham, Guillaume, Séverine; 2018-09; Kaipuleohone University of Hawai'i Digital Language Archive;http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24793. | |
| Creator: | Michaud, Alexis | |
| Adams, Oliver | ||
| Cohn, Trevor Anthony | ||
| Neubig, Graham | ||
| Guillaume, Séverine | ||
| Date (W3CDTF): | 2018-09 | |
| Description: | Automatic speech recognition tools have potential for facilitating language documentation, but in practice these tools remain little-used by linguists for a variety of reasons, such as that the technology is still new (and evolving rapidly), user-friendly interfaces are still under development, and case studies demonstrating the practical usefulness of automatic recognition in a low-resource setting remain few. This article reports on a success story in integrating automatic transcription into the language documentation workflow, specifically for Yongning Na, a language of Southwest China. Using Persephone, an open-source toolkit, a single-speaker speech transcription tool was trained over five hours of manually transcribed speech. The experiments found that this method can achieve a remarkably low error rate (on the order of 17%), and that automatic transcriptions were useful as a canvas for the linguist. The present report is intended for linguists with little or no knowledge of speech processing. It aims to provide insights into (i) the way the tool operates and (ii) the process of collaborating with natural language processing specialists. Practical recommendations are offered on how to anticipate the requirements of this type of technology from the early stages of data collection in the field. | |
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| Format: | 37 pages | |
| Identifier: | Michaud, Alexis, Oliver Adams, Trevor Anthony Cohn, Graham Neubig & Séverine Guillaume. 2018. Integrating Automatic Transcription into the Language Documentation Workflow: Experiments with Na Data and the Persephone Toolkit. Language Documentation & Conservation 12. 393-429. | |
| 1934-5275 | ||
| Identifier (URI): | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24793 | |
| Publisher: | University of Hawaii Press | |
| Rights: | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International | |
| Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States | ||
| http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/ | ||
| Subject: | language documentation | |
| automatic speech transcription | ||
| automatic speech recognition | ||
| natural language processing | ||
| endangered languages | ||
| sound archive | ||
| multimedia corpora | ||
| interdisciplinarity | ||
| open-source software | ||
| open access | ||
| Table Of Contents: | michaud.pdf | |
| Type: | Article | |
| Type (DCMI): | Text | |
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| Archive: | Language Documentation and Conservation | |
| Description: | http://www.language-archives.org/archive/ldc.scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu | |
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| OaiIdentifier: | oai:scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu:10125/24793 | |
| DateStamp: | 2019-04-23 | |
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| Citation: | Michaud, Alexis; Adams, Oliver; Cohn, Trevor Anthony; Neubig, Graham; Guillaume, Séverine. 2018. University of Hawaii Press. | |
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