videotaping a spoken lexicon

[Briony Williams]

Doug Cooper wrote:
> Greetings.  I'm investigating means for recording a 'video lexicon' --
> probably a citation form, followed by a couple of contextual phrases
> -- for each of umpteen thousand words.  I have two questions.

No-one more knowledgeable has yet replied to this, so I'll do what I can.

>    First, is there any software out there that will take as input a list
> of words and phrases, then:
> 
> 1.  visually prompt the speaker for each item, then
> 2.  survey the video (or, more likely, the sound track), either as it is
>     being recorded or after, in order to produce a word-by-word
>     time-stamp index?  The goal is to extract 1-second videos of
>     individual words / phrases.

I've used software that will do this for an audio recording, but it may also 
work for video recording. The software is "JSpeechRecorder" from the Bavarian 
Archive for Speech Signals, and is free to download from 
http://www.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de/Bas/software/speechrecorder/

It runs using Java, so is platform-independent.  It produces separate files, 
so no need for a time-stamp index.

Best regards

Briony Williams


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