Lee Hetherington


2010

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Collecting Voices from the Cloud
Ian McGraw | Chia-ying Lee | Lee Hetherington | Stephanie Seneff | Jim Glass
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)

The collection and transcription of speech data is typically an expensive and time-consuming task. Voice over IP and cloud computing are poised to greatly reduce this impediment to research on spoken language interfaces in many domains. This paper documents our efforts to deploy speech-enabled web interfaces to large audiences over the Internet via Amazon Mechanical Turk, an online marketplace for work. Using the open source WAMI Toolkit, we collected corpora in two different domains which collectively constitute over 113 hours of speech. The first corpus contains 100,000 utterances of read speech, and was collected by asking workers to record street addresses in the United States. For the second task, we collected conversations with FlightBrowser, a multimodal spoken dialogue system. The FlightBrowser corpus obtained contains 10,651 utterances composing 1,113 individual dialogue sessions from 101 distinct users. The aggregate time spent collecting the data for both corpora was just under two weeks. At times, our servers were logging audio from workers at rates faster than real-time. We describe the process of collection and transcription of these corpora while providing an analysis of the advantages and limitations to this data collection method.

2008

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A Multimodal Home Entertainment Interface via a Mobile Device
Alexander Gruenstein | Bo-June Paul Hsu | James Glass | Stephanie Seneff | Lee Hetherington | Scott Cyphers | Ibrahim Badr | Chao Wang | Sean Liu
Proceedings of the ACL-08: HLT Workshop on Mobile Language Processing

2004

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Analysis and Processing of Lecture Audio Data: Preliminary Investigations
James Glass | Timothy J. Hazen | Lee Hetherington | Chao Wang
Proceedings of the Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Speech Indexing and Retrieval at HLT-NAACL 2004