Fwd: Audio

[Nicholas Thieberger]

You can set up a streaming server on any computer with an internet
connection, so you don't need to have anything to do with the LDC if you
don't want to. But they have a model for what kind of links are possible
to whole media files.


At 3:59 PM +1000 13/8/04, Pascale Jacq wrote:
>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
>
>email: pascale.jacq at anu.edu.au
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