Speech Technology Services for Oral History Research

Christoph Draxler, Henk van den Heuvel, Arjan van Hessen, Pavel Ircing, Jan Lehečka


Abstract
Oral history is about oral sources of witnesses and commentors on historical events. Speech technology is an important instrument to process such recordings in order to obtain transcription and further enhancements to structure the oral account In this contribution we address the transcription portal and the webservices associated with speech processing at BAS, speech solutions developed at LINDAT, how to do it yourself with Whisper, remaining challenges, and future developments.
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2024.htres-1.6
Volume:
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Holocaust Testimonies as Language Resources (HTRes) @ LREC-COLING 2024
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May
Year:
2024
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Torino, Italia
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Isuri Anuradha, Martin Wynne, Francesca Frontini, Alistair Plum
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htres | WS
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ELRA and ICCL
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38–43
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Christoph Draxler, Henk van den Heuvel, Arjan van Hessen, Pavel Ircing, and Jan Lehečka. 2024. Speech Technology Services for Oral History Research. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Holocaust Testimonies as Language Resources (HTRes) @ LREC-COLING 2024, pages 38–43, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
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Speech Technology Services for Oral History Research (Draxler et al., htres-WS 2024)
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