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The Spoken Wikipedia Corpus collection: Harvesting, alignment and an application to hyperlistening

  • Spoken corpora are important for speech research, but are expensive to create and do not necessarily reflect (read or spontaneous) speech ‘in the wild’. We report on our conversion of the preexisting and freely available Spoken Wikipedia into a speech resource. The Spoken Wikipedia project unites volunteer readers of Wikipedia articles. There are initiatives to create and sustain Spoken Wikipedia versions in many languages and hence the available data grows over time. Thousands of spoken articles are available to users who prefer a spoken over the written version. We turn these semi-structured collections into structured and time-aligned corpora, keeping the exact correspondence with the original hypertext as well as all available metadata. Thus, we make the Spoken Wikipedia accessible for sustainable research. We present our open-source software pipeline that downloads, extracts, normalizes and text–speech aligns the Spoken Wikipedia. Additional language versions can be exploited by adapting configuration files or extending the software if necessary for language peculiarities. We also present and analyze the resulting corpora for German, English, and Dutch, which presently total 1005 h and grow at an estimated 87 h per year. The corpora, together with our software, are available via http://islrn.org/resources/684-927-624-257-3/. As a prototype usage of the time-aligned corpus, we describe an experiment about the preferred modalities for interacting with information-rich read-out hypertext. We find alignments to help improve user experience and factual information access by enabling targeted interaction.

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Author:Timo BaumannORCiDGND, Arne Köhn, Felix Hennig
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-017-9410-y
Parent Title (English):Language Resources and Evaluation
Publisher:Springer Nature
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2019
Release Date:2022/04/09
Tag:Annotation; Eyes-free speech access; Found data; Robust text–speech alignment; Speech corpus; Spoken hypertext; Wikipedia
Volume:53
Issue:2
First Page:303
Last Page:329
Institutes:Fakultät Informatik und Mathematik
Begutachtungsstatus:peer-reviewed
Publication:Externe Publikationen
research focus:Information und Kommunikation
Licence (German):Keine Lizenz - Es gilt das deutsche Urheberrecht: § 53 UrhG