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Spoken Language Corpora 2012-04-10 course overview

Spoken Language Corpora 2012-04-10 course overview. 2012 spring semester, tue1 elective course for IMCTS graduate students ITE-SE → S316. make roster. write full name furigana email address pass sheet. informed consent.

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Spoken Language Corpora 2012-04-10 course overview

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  1. Spoken Language Corpora2012-04-10 course overview 2012 spring semester, tue1elective course for IMCTS graduate studentsITE-SE → S316

  2. make roster • write • full name • furigana • email address pass sheet

  3. informed consent • your speech and actions may be recorded, archived and, without revealing your identity, used and made public for research and education purposes • if you disagree, I will neither record nor retaliate • 学生の言動を録音し、保存し、匿名としたうえで研究と教育のために利用したり公開する可能性がある

  4. welcome to boot camp 語道師範 剛道場 師範剛 師範代紀子 白黒

  5. contact info • office: often in jou-kyouiku-kan 3rd floor server room, or staff and student office building s316 • email: grad@kawai.com • web: goh.kawai.com

  6. goh's website • http://goh.kawai.com/ • http://goh.cll.hokudai.ac.jp/ • identical content • hokudai site may be faster

  7. alumni • 平野宏子東京大学　博士(科学)吉林華僑外国語学院 • 歌代崇史東京工業大学　博士(工学)北海学園大学 • 三角美樹札幌開成高校 • 壽崎尚美教材制作 • 片桐徳昭札幌開成高校、博士進学

  8. undergraduate education • english language for freshmen • online course • instructor-led courses

  9. english online

  10. instructor-led course

  11. pronunciation lunch

  12. spoken language corpora course • acquire a specific practical skill • not theory • lots of out-of-class work

  13. objectives • re: spoken language corpora, explain: • basic concepts (definitions, features) • uses (analysis, engineering, learning) • design and development strategies • re: speech analysis, perform: • design and collect corpus • label and analyze speech • interpret analyses

  14. prerequisites • phonetics and phonology • sound system of English and/or Japanese • IPA desirable • audio input and output using computers • bring your laptop (Linux, Windows, Mac) • statistics • mean, standard deviation

  15. format of each class period • explain concepts and theory • collect and analyze speech • learn software tools • transcribe and analyze • design corpus • learn about research and academia • explain next week's assignment

  16. grading • discussion and project 100% • essential • classroom participation • project

  17. schedule • purple means assignment attendance mandatory

  18. courseware • everything online • reading material • lecture notes (including this presentation) • etc • http://goh.kawai.com/ • http://goh.cll.hokudai.ac.jp/ (inprog)

  19. Praat • http://www.praat.org/ • built by researchers and engineers in linguistics and speech processing • updated frequently • good support base • Windows, Mac, Linux • free PRAAT

  20. what can Praat do? • record and play speech • display waveforms, spectrograms, pitch and more • label speech at various levels • phone, mora, syllable, word, phrase and utterance levels • SIL fonts • Praat in action SIL PRAAT

  21. demo • view praat • time waveform • spectogram • spectral slice • sound sources show praat • vowels • consonants • pure tones (sinusoids)

  22. readings • Jurafsky et al (2000) chapter 4

  23. next week • install Praat • TIMIT sentences • download from my website • extract speech files from archive • read files into Praat • play speech • view waveforms and spectograms • label at the word level

  24. slideshow • if there's time

  25. see you next week! mailto:grad@kawai.com http://goh.kawai.com/

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