Robert FromontWe evaluated the possibility of fully automating the transcription and alignment of the German Plapper Corpus; speech gathered using an app as part of a citizen science initiative.
Turns out that using prompt text as a transcript is more accurate than ASR, and both WebMAUS and Montreal Forced Aligner are pretty good!
New Zealand English speakers vary in terms of how they pronounce several subsets of monophthongs. One vowel subset distinguishes ‘leaders’ and ‘laggers’ of several ongoing sound changes. But do listeners make social judgements based on these covarying vowels? A new #LabPhon article addresses this question by asking listeners to group voices together and provide labels about the social characteristics underlying their groups.
New release for LaBB-CAT:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/labbcat/files/install/
Including many improvements to the user experience, and updates to integration modules, plus integration with Stanford Core #NLP's Named Entity Recognizer (NER)
New release for LaBB-CAT:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/labbcat/files/install/
Including many interface improvements gratefully received from Dan Villarreal
New release of nzilbb-labbcat #Python package 0.11.0
https://pypi.org/project/nzilbb-labbcat/0.11.0/
Including a new upload API, and support for accessing non-textual annotation data, e.g. images of automatically annotated video frames.
New release of nzilbb.labbcat #RStats package 1.4-0
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/nzilbb.labbcat/
Including functions for managing media files, a new upload API,
and support for within-word segment context matching.
nzilbb.labbcat: Accessing Data Stored in 'LaBB-CAT' Instances
'LaBB-CAT' is a web-based language corpus management system developed by the New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour (NZILBB) - see <<a href="https://labbcat.canterbury.ac.nz" target="_top">https://labbcat.canterbury.ac.nz</a>>. This package defines functions for accessing corpus data in a 'LaBB-CAT' instance. You must have at least version 20230818.1400 of 'LaBB-CAT' to use this package. For more information about 'LaBB-CAT', see Robert Fromont and Jennifer Hay (2008) <<a href="https://doi.org/10.3366%2FE1749503208000142" target="_top">doi:10.3366/E1749503208000142</a>> or Robert Fromont (2017) <<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.csl.2017.01.004" target="_top">doi:10.1016/j.csl.2017.01.004</a>>.
New release of LaBB-CAT:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/labbcat/files/install/
Josh Wilson Blacknzilbb.vowels: Vowel Covariation Tools (0.3.1) is now on CRAN. The package contains many useful functions for applying Principal Component Analysis to vocalic data and visualising the results. Website and documentation here: https://nzilbb.github.io/nzilbb_vowels/
Lauren Hall-LewMy inaugural lecture is now online 🥰
https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/Professor+Lauren+Hall-Lew+Inaugural+Lecture/1_upsi58yk
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Professor Lauren Hall-Lew Inaugural Lecture
Professor Lauren Hall-Lew's Inaugural Lecture from 25th September 2024. Sociophonetic indexicality as a window onto language and society.
New release of LaBB-CAT: