A Blueprint for a comprehensive Australian English auditory-visual speech corpus

Denis Burnham; Eliathamby Ambikairajah; Joanne Arciuli; Mohammed Bennamoun; Catherine T. Best; Steven Bird; Andrew R. Butcher; Steve Cassidy; Girija Chetty; Felicity M. Cox; Anne Cutler; Robert Dale; Julien R. Epps; Janet M. Fletcher; Roland Goecke; David B. Grayden; John T. Hajek; John C. Ingram; Shunichi Ishihara; Nenagh Kemp; Yuko Kinoshita; Takaaki Kuratate; Trent W. Lewis; Debbie E. Loakes; Mark Onslow; David M. Powers; Philip Rose; Roberto Togneri; Dat Tran; Michael Wagner

A Blueprint for a comprehensive Australian English auditory-visual speech corpus

Denis Burnham, Eliathamby Ambikairajah, Joanne Arciuli, Mohammed Bennamoun, Catherine T. Best, Steven Bird, Andrew R. Butcher, Steve Cassidy, Girija Chetty, Felicity M. Cox, Anne Cutler, Robert Dale, Julien R. Epps, Janet M. Fletcher, Roland Goecke, David B. Grayden, John T. Hajek, John C. Ingram, Shunichi Ishihara, Nenagh KempYuko Kinoshita, Takaaki Kuratate, Trent W. Lewis, Debbie E. Loakes, Mark Onslow, David M. Powers, Philip Rose, Roberto Togneri, Dat Tran, Michael Wagner

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Abstract

Large auditory-visual (AV) speech corpora are the grist of modern research in speech science, but no such corpus exists for Australian English. This is unfortunate, for speech science is the brains behind speech technology and applications such as text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis, automatic speech recognition (ASR), speaker recognition and forensic identification, talking heads, and hearing prostheses. Advances in these research areas in Australia require a large corpus of Australian English. Here the authors describe a blueprint for building the Big Australian Speech Corpus (the Big ASC), a corpus of over 1,100 speakers from urban and rural Australia, including speakers of non-indigenous, indigenous, ethnocultural, and disordered forms of Australian English, each of whom would be sampled on three occasions in a range of speech tasks designed by the researchers who would be using the corpus.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Selected proceedings of the 2008 HCSNet Workshop on Designing the Australian National Corpus
Subtitle of host publication	mustering languages
Editors	Michael Haugh, Kate Burridge, Jean Mulder, Pam Peters
Place of Publication	Somerville, MA
Publisher	Cascadilla Proceedings Project
Pages	96-107
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Print)	9781574734355
Publication status	Published - 2009
Event	HCSNet Workshop on Designing the Australian National Corpus - Sydney Duration: 4 Dec 2009 → 5 Dec 2009

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Workshop	HCSNet Workshop on Designing the Australian National Corpus
City	Sydney
Period	4/12/09 → 5/12/09

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Burnham, D., Ambikairajah, E., Arciuli, J., Bennamoun, M., Best, C. T., Bird, S., Butcher, A. R., Cassidy, S., Chetty, G., Cox, F. M., Cutler, A., Dale, R., Epps, J. R., Fletcher, J. M., Goecke, R., Grayden, D. B., Hajek, J. T., Ingram, J. C., Ishihara, S., ... Wagner, M. (2009). A Blueprint for a comprehensive Australian English auditory-visual speech corpus. In M. Haugh, K. Burridge, J. Mulder, & P. Peters (Eds.), Selected proceedings of the 2008 HCSNet Workshop on Designing the Australian National Corpus: mustering languages (pp. 96-107). Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

Burnham, Denis ; Ambikairajah, Eliathamby ; Arciuli, Joanne et al. / A Blueprint for a comprehensive Australian English auditory-visual speech corpus. Selected proceedings of the 2008 HCSNet Workshop on Designing the Australian National Corpus: mustering languages. editor / Michael Haugh ; Kate Burridge ; Jean Mulder ; Pam Peters. Somerville, MA : Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 2009. pp. 96-107

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Burnham, D, Ambikairajah, E, Arciuli, J, Bennamoun, M, Best, CT, Bird, S, Butcher, AR, Cassidy, S, Chetty, G, Cox, FM, Cutler, A, Dale, R, Epps, JR, Fletcher, JM, Goecke, R, Grayden, DB, Hajek, JT, Ingram, JC, Ishihara, S, Kemp, N, Kinoshita, Y, Kuratate, T, Lewis, TW, Loakes, DE, Onslow, M, Powers, DM, Rose, P, Togneri, R, Tran, D & Wagner, M 2009, A Blueprint for a comprehensive Australian English auditory-visual speech corpus. in M Haugh, K Burridge, J Mulder & P Peters (eds), Selected proceedings of the 2008 HCSNet Workshop on Designing the Australian National Corpus: mustering languages. Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, pp. 96-107, HCSNet Workshop on Designing the Australian National Corpus, Sydney, 4/12/09.

A Blueprint for a comprehensive Australian English auditory-visual speech corpus. / Burnham, Denis; Ambikairajah, Eliathamby; Arciuli, Joanne et al.
Selected proceedings of the 2008 HCSNet Workshop on Designing the Australian National Corpus: mustering languages. ed. / Michael Haugh; Kate Burridge; Jean Mulder; Pam Peters. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 2009. p. 96-107.

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