Quality assessment of crowdsourcing transcriptions for African languages

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3065-3068

  Gelas, Hadrien ^a,b   Abate, Solomon Teferra ^b   Besacier, Laurent ^b   Pellegrino, François ^a  

^a Institut des Sciences de l'Homme   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

African languages; Amazon's mechanical Turk; Speech transcription; Under resourced languages

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MODEL; AFRICAN LANGUAGES; AMAZON'S MECHANICAL TURKS; CHARACTER LEVEL; CROWDSOURCING; ETHICAL ISSUES; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; QUALITY OF SPEECH; SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SPEECH TRANSCRIPTIONS; WORD RECOGNITION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

TRANSCRIPTION;

EID: 84865722538     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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