Speech Corpora as Facilities of Creation and Storage of Exemplary Speech Signals
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https://doi.org/10.20535/1810-0546.2013.1.90709Abstract
Speech corpora are an important constituent of modern investigators’ toolkit in such areas as speech correction, designing and testing elements of telecommunication systems and systems of automatic speech recognition. In this paper, we search for elements of construction technology of the sound part of noisy Ukrainian speech corpora. To this end, we consider characteristics of the most wiely used modern noisy speech corpora which allow formulating principles of such corpora design. The regularity of formulated principles is shown by an example of known modern program toolkit FaNT which permits constructing quickly speech corpora with required properties. The guidelines on constructing similar program toolkit in Matlab environment are developed. Such toolkit will allow not only to work out by joint efforts the best version of a Ukrainian noisy speech corpus, but to compare algorithms of noise reduction and algorithms of automatic speech recognition elaborated by various scientists with one another in the future.References
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