The first step of most acoustic analyses unavoidably involves the alignment of recorded
speech sounds with their phonetic annotation. This step is very labor-intensive and cost …

SPPAS is a tool to produce automatic annotations which include utterance, word, syllabic
and phonemic segmentations from a recorded speech sound and its transcription. SPPAS is …

Text normalization is a critical step in the variety of tasks involving speech and language
technologies. It is one of the vital components of natural language processing, text-to …

Most of the time, analyzing the phonetic entities of speech requires the alignment of the
speech recording with its phonetic transcription. However, studies on automatic …

In this paper we present investigation of real-life, bi-directional conversations. We introduce
the multimodal corpus derived from these natural conversations alternating between human …

The analysis of the structure of speech nearly always rests on the alignment of the speech
recording with a phonetic transcription. Nowadays several tools can perform this speech …

Cheese! is a conversational corpus. It consists of 11 French face-to-face conversations
lasting around 15 minutes each. Cheese! is a duplication of an American corpus (ref) in …

The development of HLT tools inevitably involves the need for language resources.
However, only a handful number of languages possesses such resources. This paper …

This paper presents a multilingual learners corpus, AixOx, collect-ed in the framework of an
Alliance project (a partnership between the British Council and The French Ministry of …

Though Cantonese is the most influential variety of Chinese other than Mandarin, there are
only a limited number of Cantonese corpora available for linguistic studies. Among the …