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On-site Recording

On-site recordings cover all speech recordings that are performed at one or a limited number of recording sites. They have the advantage that the quality of the recorded signals can be controlled without restrictions. For instance you may use a wide range of low cost to high quality microphones in an on-site recording session.

Basically an on-site recording setup may have all possible setup features as listed before. Aside from that you should distinguish between

The latter is more cost-effective because the same supervisor may conduct up to three recordings in different rooms in parallel and errors will be marked in the annotation phase after the collection. However, if all speech items of a recording session are 100% essential, the first method has to be followed.4.3

On-site recordings require more manpower than telephone recordings (for scheduling and supervision). Also, in most cases there are only a few recording rooms available (while in a telephone recording many calls can be handled in parallel) and therefore more time should be allotted to the collection phase. On-site recordings in different locations require careful planning and training of the different crews to avoid recording site specific differences in the data. Be sure that exactly the same hardware is used in all locations. Also the monitoring should be performed by one central institution only.


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