Fwd: Audio

[Pascale Jacq]

Thanks Pat and Nick for your responses.

A concern with the Linguistic Data Consortium, is that once you provide
your data to them, to then access it through their streaming server, it is
also then accessible by everyone. How can we preserve the restricted access
to the language material should the language community ask for it?

Pascale


>Re Pascale's message, I am very impressed by the performance of the
>Switchboard corpus hosted
>on the LDC site (mentioned by Nick)  in this regard. Even from my 56k
>modem at home I can download audiobites of 20secs or more in only a
>couple of secs then run them through PRAAT or whatever. You can do a
>global search for items (words or phrases) across the very large
>corpus
>of transcripts, get a concordance with large sections of text either
>side of the target item, play/download either the item or the section
>containing it with very little delay and continue doing such searches
>and downloads. Several formats are available including wav.
>
>I don't know what technology lies behind this, if this could be
>replicated or how much it would cost, but maybe Steven Bird could
>advise.
>
>
>Pat

Research Assistant to Prof. Francesca Merlan
Jawoyn Project
School of Archaeology and Anthropology
Faculty of Arts
Australian National University
Canberra, A.C.T. 0200, Australia

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