Building an audio-visual corpus of Australian English: large corpus collection with an economical portable and replicable black box

Denis Burnham, Dominique Estival, Steven Fazio, Jette Viethen, Felicity Cox, Robert Dale, Steve Cassidy, Julien Epps, Roberto Togneri, Michael Wagner, Yuko Kinoshita, Roland Göcke, Joanne Arciuli, Marc Onslow, Trent Lewis, Andrew Butcher, John Hajek

The Big Australian Speech Corpus project incorporates the strategic goals of 30 Chief Investigators from various speech science areas. Speech from 1000 geographically and socially diverse speakers is being recorded using a uniform and automated protocol plus standardized hardware and software to produce a widely applicable and extensible database - AusTalk. Here we describe the project's major components and organization; share the lessons learnt from difficulties and challenges; and present the results achieved so far.

doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2011-309

Cite as: Burnham, D., Estival, D., Fazio, S., Viethen, J., Cox, F., Dale, R., Cassidy, S., Epps, J., Togneri, R., Wagner, M., Kinoshita, Y., Göcke, R., Arciuli, J., Onslow, M., Lewis, T., Butcher, A., Hajek, J. (2011) Building an audio-visual corpus of Australian English: large corpus collection with an economical portable and replicable black box. Proc. Interspeech 2011, 841-844, doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2011-309

@inproceedings{burnham11_interspeech,
  author={Denis Burnham and Dominique Estival and Steven Fazio and Jette Viethen and Felicity Cox and Robert Dale and Steve Cassidy and Julien Epps and Roberto Togneri and Michael Wagner and Yuko Kinoshita and Roland Göcke and Joanne Arciuli and Marc Onslow and Trent Lewis and Andrew Butcher and John Hajek},
  title={{Building an audio-visual corpus of Australian English: large corpus collection with an economical portable and replicable black box}},
  year=2011,
  booktitle={Proc. Interspeech 2011},
  pages={841--844},
  doi={10.21437/Interspeech.2011-309}
}