Thanks a lot, I was somewhat short on bibliography.

-wnlt 

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Hi Nick,

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you ...

>a) a place where we can submit free titles (coupled with the url that they are

>hosted - Possible Audio Sources is just that - yes)

OK, I will set you and bilal up on Trac - we can create a separate Wiki page for this too.

(if anyone else needs access to Trac (VoxForgeDev) please let me know - I had mod_security working perfectly at one time to allow anonymous access, but an upgrade in O/S caused problems with this and comment spammers started taking over the site ...)

>b) a place where dvd2data_set, avi_srt2data_set scripts are hosted

I can give you access to SVN to upload these scripts.

>d) a place where already ripped AND authored data sets are uploaded/hosted 

I think we can do this too, as long as there are no Copyright issues. 

Just to make sure I am clear on this ... when you say data set, are you referring to speech corpora (i.e. speech audio files and their associated text transcriptions)?  How big are these data sets?  

>c) a place where we can submit ripped data-sets for community authoring, that is to say

The VoxForge forum system might be useful for this.

>Point c) is covered by the offline tools, but an online community-authoring tool would definetely rock !

That is a long-term goal - i.e. to permit users to edit/fix transcriptions on-line. 

>2) Fix Timing Bugs

One question, why do you need timing data?  With HTK acoustic model training (I have not worked much with Sphinx, but I assume it works the same in this respect), you only need to segment the audio into 10-15 word sentences, and it figures out the phoneme locations automatically.

Ken 

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1)...when you say data set, are you referring to speech corpora (i.e. speech audio files and their associated text transcriptions)?  How big are these data sets? 

*Yes I am referring to speech corpora(audio + transcriptions and maybe + .voc +.language_model)

*Size example (zeitigeist -  http://zeitgeistmovie.com/ - officially available on the net) 

-> 1.9Gb (Uncompressed 16-bit PCM audio, Stereo, 48000Hz)

.wav storage (in this sample rate and number of channels) is not necessery - we should have a policy on this - most speech databases are Mono-16KHz if I'm not mistaken

-> 1287 utterances

some of them may be compined (due to the fact that they occur in the same sentence - i.e the end-time of the first matches the start-time of the second)

while others may be discarded due to their bad sound condition (loud music, fx or too much-noise)

2)...One question, why do you need timing data?  With HTK acoustic model training (I have not worked much with Sphinx, but I assume it works the same in this respect), you only need to segment the audio into 10-15 word sentences, and it figures out the phoneme locations automatically.

When I was talking about timing-bugs, I was refering to subtitles' timing which in some cases although VISUALLY correct, can benefit from some milliseconds added or substracted to achieve a high-quality utterance.

3)...OK, I will set you and bilal up on Trac - we can create a separate Wiki page for this too.

For account details (username,password) you can contact me at [email protected].

Thank you very much,

Nick 

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