[Corpora-List] Question concerning audio file search

[Adam Kilgarriff]

Briony,

Not directly an answer, but do you know http://podzinger.com.  This
astonishing website has vast quantities of podcasts, automatically
transcribed and text-searchable.  (Just the day before, I had been
confidently declaring that this level of transcription was  beyond the state
of the art.)  I encountered it because John Milton, in Hong Kong, has
integrated it into his English Language Teaching tools so students can hear
a word or phrase they are learning.

Adam

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From: owner-corpora at lists.uib.no [mailto:owner-corpora at lists.uib.no] On
Behalf Of Briony Williams
Sent: 20 December 2006 15:18
To: CORPORA at uib.no
Subject: [Corpora-List] Question concerning audio file search

sato hiroaki wrote:
> I've just made a software tool for using DVD movies as a multimedia
corpus.

Following the publicising of this useful-looking tool, I wonder whether any 
members of the Corpora list could help me with a related task, concerning 
audio rather than video files. I'm asking on behalf of someone else.

Is there an existing Windows-based software application that will do the 
following? (preferably free of charge, and without a large memory
requirement):-

1) Given: several very long .wav sound files (possibly an hour long), with 
associated text transcript files (.trs files) as produced using the 
"Transcriber" software application.

2) User input:  User types one or more words to search for in the 
transcription files.

3) Output: Software returns each chunk of text that contains the search 
string (where "chunk" could be a phrase, sentence, paragraph, topic, or 
larger, depending on the granularity of the transcription files).

4) User input: User selects one of the search results.

5) Output: Software plays back the portion of the (large) sound file 
corresponding to the chunk selected by the user.

I can think of a way to do this using Cygwin and Edinburgh Speech Tools -
but 
does anyone know of an existing solution using a Windows graphical
interface? 
My contact seems to prefer a point-and-click interface if possible.

Thanks in advance for any responses.

Best regards

Briony Williams

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