WebTranscribe – an extensible web-based speech annotation framework

  • Authors:
  • Christoph Draxler

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut für Phonetik und Sprachliche Kommunikation (IPSK), Universität München

  • Venue:
  • TSD'05 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

WebTranscribe is a platform independent and extensible web-based annotation framework for speech research and spoken language technology. The framework consists of an annotation editor front-end running as a Java Web Start application on a client computer, and a DBMS on a server. The framework implements a “select – annotate – save” annotation workflow. The annotation capabilities are determined by annotation editors, implemented as plug-ins to the general framework. An annotation configuration generally consists of an editor, editing buttons, a signal display and a quality assessment panel. A configuration file determines which plug-ins to use for a given annotation project. WebTranscribe has been used in numerous projects at BAS and has reached a mature state now. The software is freely available [19].