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The semi-automated creation of stratified speech corpora

Van Heerden et al., 2013

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Van Heerden C
Barnard E
Davel M
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Smartphones provide an efficient means for the collection of speech data; however, the quality of the corpora created in this fashion is not predictable. We describe an approach that allows us to post-process and rank utterances in a prompted speech corpus quickly and …
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