ALLIES: A Speech Corpus for Segmentation, Speaker Diarization, Speech Recognition and Speaker Change Detection
Marie Tahon, Anthony Larcher, Martin Lebourdais, Fethi Bougares, Anna Silnova, Pablo Gimeno
Abstract
This paper presents ALLIES, a meta corpus which gathers and extends existing French corpora collected from radio and TV shows. The corpus contains 1048 audio files for about 500 hours of speech. Agglomeration of data is always a difficult issue, as the guidelines used to collect, annotate and transcribe speech are generally different from one corpus to another. ALLIES intends to homogenize and correct speaker labels among the different files by integrated human feedback within a speaker verification system. The main contribution of this article is the design of a protocol in order to evaluate properly speech segmentation (including music and overlap detection), speaker diarization, speech transcription and speaker change detection. As part of it, a test partition has been carefully manually 1) segmented and annotated according to speech, music, noise, speaker labels with specific guidelines for overlap speech, 2) orthographically transcribed. This article also provides as a second contribution baseline results for several speech processing tasks.- Anthology ID:
- 2024.lrec-main.67
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2024
- Address:
- Torino, Italia
- Editors:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan, Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakriani Sakti, Nianwen Xue
- Venues:
- LREC | COLING
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- ELRA and ICCL
- Note:
- Pages:
- 751–758
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.67
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Marie Tahon, Anthony Larcher, Martin Lebourdais, Fethi Bougares, Anna Silnova, and Pablo Gimeno. 2024. ALLIES: A Speech Corpus for Segmentation, Speaker Diarization, Speech Recognition and Speaker Change Detection. In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), pages 751–758, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
- Cite (Informal):
- ALLIES: A Speech Corpus for Segmentation, Speaker Diarization, Speech Recognition and Speaker Change Detection (Tahon et al., LREC-COLING 2024)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/2024.lrec-main.67.pdf