BAS
Bavarian Archive for Speech Signals
Software

This page was last updated March 20 2009

• BAS MAUS - Munich AUtomatic Segmentation

  MAUS is a tool to automatically segment and label speech into phonemic categories while anticipating statistical relevant variations in speech.

  MAUS may be downloaded for free usage (except re-distribution). It consists of a package of scripts, binaries (linux only) and documentation. You will need Cambridge HTK to run MAUS.

  Please refer to the documentation in the package for a more detailed description of the system or read some of the newer papers about MAUS: Schiel 2004, Beringer & Schiel 2000, Schiel 1999.

• BAS SpeechRecorder

  SpeechRecorder is a platform independent audio recording software customized to the requirements of speech recordings.

• BAS AudioEditorUI

  AudioEditorUI is tool for recording, playback and editing of audio WAV files.

• Munich Automatic Speaker Verification (MASV)

  MASV is a complete experimental environment for testing speaker verification techniques. It was designed for the German VeriDat corpus, but myay be adapted to other corpora. It requires MatLab.

• BAS Standard Software Package

  The BAS Standard Software Package contains a collection of useful scripts and programs (C++) to deal with the audio and text formats provided inthe BAS speech corpora. Please refer to the README file for further details.

• BAS WebTranscribe

  WebTranscribe is JAVA Webstart based client application that together with a JAVA servlet and a standard data base tool allows to annotate vast amounts of speech data over the Web. The tool downloads the next free speech sample, displays it and offers a customizable text editor for transcription. The servlet takes care of locking and storage of the annotation information into the database.

  WebTranscribe is currently (02/2005) under development (Beta) and is used in several BAS internal projects (e.g. SmartWeb data collection). If you are interested in using WebTranscribe for your speech resource project, please contact Christoph Draxler at BAS.