TY - GEN
T1 - A blueprint for a comprehensive Australian English auditory-visual speech corpus
AU - Burnham, Denis
AU - Ambikairajah, Eliathamby
AU - Arciuli, Joanne
AU - Bennamoun, Mohammed
AU - Best, Catherine T
AU - Bird, Steven
AU - Butcher, Andrew R
AU - Cassidy, Steve
AU - Chetty, Girija
AU - Cox, Felicity M
AU - Cutler, Anne
AU - Dale, Robert
AU - Epps, Julien
AU - Fletcher, Janet
AU - Goecke, Roland
AU - Grayden, David
AU - Hajek, John
AU - Ingram, John
AU - Ishihara, Shunichi
AU - Kemp, Nenagh
AU - Kinoshita, Yuko
AU - Kuratate, Takaaki
AU - Lewis, Trent
AU - Loakes, Debbie
AU - Onslow, Mark
AU - Powers, David
AU - Rose, Philip
AU - Togneri, Roberto
AU - Tran, Dat
AU - Wagner, Michael
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Contemporary speech science is driven by the availability of large, diverse speech corpora. Such infrastructure underpins research and technological advances in various practical, socially beneficial and economically fruitful endeavours, from ASR to hearing prostheses. Unfortunately, speech corpora are not easy to come by because they are both expensive to collect and are not favoured by the usual funding sources as their collection per se does not fall under the classification of ‘research’. Nevertheless they provide the sine qua non for many avenues of research endeavour in speech science.
The only publicly available Australian speech corpus is the 12-year-old Australian National Database of Spoken Language (ANDOSL) database (see http://andosl.anu.edu.au/; Millar, Dermody, Harrington, & Vonwillar, 1990), which is now outmoded due to its small number of participants, just a single recording session per speaker, low fidelity, audio-only rather than AV data, its lack of disordered speech, and limited coverage of indigenous and ethnocultural Australian English (AusE) variants. There are more up-to-date UK and US English language corpora, but these are mostly audio-only, and use of these for AusE purposes is not optimal, and results in inaccuracies.
AB - Contemporary speech science is driven by the availability of large, diverse speech corpora. Such infrastructure underpins research and technological advances in various practical, socially beneficial and economically fruitful endeavours, from ASR to hearing prostheses. Unfortunately, speech corpora are not easy to come by because they are both expensive to collect and are not favoured by the usual funding sources as their collection per se does not fall under the classification of ‘research’. Nevertheless they provide the sine qua non for many avenues of research endeavour in speech science.
The only publicly available Australian speech corpus is the 12-year-old Australian National Database of Spoken Language (ANDOSL) database (see http://andosl.anu.edu.au/; Millar, Dermody, Harrington, & Vonwillar, 1990), which is now outmoded due to its small number of participants, just a single recording session per speaker, low fidelity, audio-only rather than AV data, its lack of disordered speech, and limited coverage of indigenous and ethnocultural Australian English (AusE) variants. There are more up-to-date UK and US English language corpora, but these are mostly audio-only, and use of these for AusE purposes is not optimal, and results in inaccuracies.
M3 - Conference Paper published in Proceedings
SP - 96
EP - 107
BT - Selected Proceedings of the 2008 HCSNet Workshop on Designing the Australian National Corpus
PB - Cascadilla Press
ER -