28.1995, Qs: Phonetic Transcription Project

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-1995. Fri Apr 28 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.1995, Qs: Phonetic Transcription Project

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Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 12:41:36
From: Steven Weinberger [weinberg at gmu.edu]
Subject: Phonetic Transcription Project

 
Dear linguists,

We are asking you, as a student or teacher of phonetics/linguistics, to
participate in a crowdsourcing project.  You will participate as a phonetic
transcriber, and through your practice of transcribing native and non-native
speech, you will provide the speech accent archive with data to help us
develop a computational method of speech transcription.  Essentially, a
special webpage will deliver a single short audio phrase of native or
non-native English speech, 3-7 syllables in length, to be phonetically
transcribed by hundreds of phonetics students and teachers like you from all
over the world.  These transcription attempts will form a database that will
result in the best transcription for that particular audio phrase. After each
submission, you will receive the best transcription and can compare it with
your own attempt. The data we obtain will help us understand the process of
human phonetic transcription and speech perception, while serving as training
evidence for a computer algorithm.

This project has passed our university’s Institutional Review Board (IRB)
IRBnet # 968912-1 .

You are invited to visit the transcription activity.  Just visit
http://transcriber.accent.gmu.edu .  You will need to register through our
online form.  If you have any questions about the project, please do not
hesitate to ask:  phonetic at gmu.edu.

The task takes less than 10 minutes.  We need your help.   We will post our
results.

Thanks, 

Steven H. Weinberger, 

Steven H. Weinberger
Associate Professor
Director of Linguistics
Department of English  3e4
George Mason University
Fairfax VA 22030  USA
 

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics



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