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Terms and Definitions
The following list defines some technical terms
deemed important in the context of this cookbook
- Speech Corpus = physical time signals, in most cases sound pressure or
other measurable time signals recorded from the act of
speaking1.3,
together with an associated set of annotations, meta data and
documentation stored on a digital medium.
- Validation = the (formal) check of a speech corpus with regard to
its pre-defined specifications.
- Evaluation = a qualitative assessment of a corpus with regard to
its usability in a certain task or development scenario.
- Specification = the fixed technical description of a speech corpus
with regards to all of its features (including annotations, meta data and
documentation).
- (File) Format = standardized or specified format of digital signal
and symbolic (annotations, meta data) data.
- Annotation = discrete (categorized) description associated with
a physical signal (coding). Usually consists of a closed set of symbols and a
scheme to link these symbols to either points in time or segments in
time.
- Domain = topics of verbal communication or the situation in
which a verbal communication takes place.
- Prompt = speech item (word, phrase or sentence) presented to
a speaker. A prompt list or prompt corpus is a collection of
prompts that define the spoken content of the corpus.
- Spoken Content = what was spoken in a speech corpus.
- Meta data = data about data. In this book the term meta data is
restricted to three types: recording protocols, comments and speaker profiles.
- Codes = categorized data entries, in contrast to free
text. If for instance the meta data parameter place of
birth is restricted to the German states and the category
`other', then it is a code. A free comment about recording
success is no code and therefore not machine readable.
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