Towards multimodal spoken language corpora: TransTool and SyncTool

  • Authors:
  • Joakim Nivre;Kristina Tullgren;Jens Allwood;Elisabeth Ahlsén;Jenny Holm;Leif Grönqvist;Dario Lopez-Kästen;Sylvana Sofkova

  • Affiliations:
  • Göteborg University;Göteborg University;Göteborg University;Göteborg University;Göteborg University;Göteborg University;Göteborg University;Göteborg University

  • Venue:
  • Transcribe '98 Proceedings of the Workshop on Partially Automated Techniques for Transcribing Naturally Occurring Continuous Speech
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

This paper argues for the usefulness of multimodal spoken language corpora and specifies components of a platform for the creation, maintenance and exploitation of such corpora. Two of the components, which have already been implemented as prototypes, are described in more detail: TransTool and SyncTool. TransTool is a transcription editor meant to facilitate and partially automate the task of a human transcriber, while SyncTool is a tool for aligning the resulting transcriptions with a digitized audio and video recording in order to allow synchronized presentation of different representations (e.g., text, audio, video, acoustic analysis). Finally, a brief comparison is made between these tools and other programs developed for similar purposes.