TRANSCRIBING SOUTHERN MIN SPEECH CORPORA WITH A WEB-BASED LANGUAGE LEARNING SYSTEM

SLTU 2008 - 1st International Workshop on Spoken Languages Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 102-107

  Cai, Jun ^a,b   Feldmar, Jacques ^a   Laprie, Yves ^a   Haton, Jean Paul ^a  

^a LORIA   (France)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

distributed knowledge acquisition; southern Min (Min Nan) language; Speech transcription; Web based language learning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SPEECH TRANSMISSION; TRANSCRIPTION; WEBSITES;

DISTRIBUTED KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; HUMAN COMPUTATION; LANGUAGE LEARNING SYSTEMS; LARGE AMOUNTS; SOUTHERN MIN (MIN NAN) LANGUAGE; SPEECH CORPORA; SPEECH TRANSCRIPTIONS; WEB-BASED LANGUAGE LEARNING;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 84893666435     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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