Abstract
The Speech Database (Speech-DB: URL: https://speech-db.altlab.app) is an on-line platform for language documentation, written and spoken language validation, and speech exploration; its code-base is available as open source. In its current state, Speech-DB has expanded to contain content for several Indigenous languages spoken in Western Canada, having started with audio for the dialect of Plains Cree spoken in Maskwacîs, Alberta, Canada. Currently, it is used primarily for validation and storage. It can be accessed by anyone with an internet connection in six levels of access rights. What follows is the rationale for the development of speech-DB, an exploration of its features, and a description of usage scenarios, as well as initial user feedback on the application.- Anthology ID:
- 2023.fieldmatters-1.4
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Second Workshop on NLP Applications to Field Linguistics
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2023
- Address:
- Dubrovnik, Croatia
- Editors:
- Oleg Serikov, Ekaterina Voloshina, Anna Postnikova, Elena Klyachko, Ekaterina Vylomova, Tatiana Shavrina, Eric Le Ferrand, Valentin Malykh, Francis Tyers, Timofey Arkhangelskiy, Vladislav Mikhailov
- Venue:
- FieldMatters
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 30–39
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2023.fieldmatters-1.4
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2023.fieldmatters-1.4
- Cite (ACL):
- Jolene Poulin, Daniel Dacanay, and Antti Arppe. 2023. Speech Database (Speech-DB) – An on-line platform for storing, validating, searching, and recording spoken language data. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on NLP Applications to Field Linguistics, pages 30–39, Dubrovnik, Croatia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Speech Database (Speech-DB) – An on-line platform for storing, validating, searching, and recording spoken language data (Poulin et al., FieldMatters 2023)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/emnlp-22-attachments/2023.fieldmatters-1.4.pdf