Phonetic Level Annotation and Segmentation of Hungarian Speech Databases1

 Gyula Zsigri2, András Kocsor3, László Tóth2, and Györgyi Sejtes3

  Acta Cybernetica 16 (2004) 659-673.

Abstract:

  The purpose of this paper is to give an outline of phonetic level annotation and segmentation of Hungarian speech databases at the levels of definition and speech technology. In addition to giving guidance to the definition of the content of a database, the technique of annotation and the procedure of manual segmentation, we also discuss mathematical models of computer-aided semi-automatic and automatic segmentation. Finally, we are summing up our observations about the application of the procedures we gained during the processing of the MTBA Hungarian Telephone Speech Database.

Footnotes

 Databases 1 Presented at the 1st Conference on Hungarian Computational Linguistics, December 10-11, 2003, Szeged.

 Zsigri 2 Department of Hungarian Linguistics, University of Szeged, H-6722 Szeged, Egyetem utca 2., Hungary, e-mail: zsigri@hung.u-szeged.hu

 Kocsor 3 Research Group on Artificial Intelligence of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and University of Szeged, H-6720 Szeged, Aradi vértanúk tere 1., Hungary, e-mail: kocsor@inf.u-szeged.hu, tothl@inf.u-szeged.hu

 Sejtes 3 Department of Hungarian Linguistics, University of Szeged, H-6722 Szeged, Egyetem utca 2., Hungary, e-mail: sejtes@hung.u-szeged.hu