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But on behalf of henk van den heuvel I am a
speech technologist at the radboud university of

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From nijmegen I have an incredible passion
for sound and unlocking sound and it's right

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In the twentieth century that the sound could
also really be recorded and analyzed in that way

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And I started as an ethic but grew and
speech engineer and that's a development

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Which I think is extremely important and for the
one and it is what we are involved in now means it

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That speech technology offers unbelievable
opportunities to unlock audio and video

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Look like and you can make an incredibly
important contribution to digitizing analogue

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Material like your tape recordings to make
digital material there but speech engineer

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You can then get started to unlock that material
if you do not do that last it will be locked

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In the closet again and may ask people but
they do not know what's in it right through

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Speech technology mean you can mean a
lot more will give some examples what

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To offer the speech technology we think of automatic
speech recognition then it is possible to

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The audio convert the spoken text to the
spoken words into text and then it can

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Read again and you can carry transcript by
hand but it costs incredibly more much more

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Time than when you can use an automatic speech
recognition that many people do not agree with

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Knowing that speech technology is also able
to recognize speakers so is able to say too

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Recognize who is speaking and at what time and
can add that to the information boards and

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In this way, what the speech technologist can
do is to be readable and insightful to the

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On one hand, the material will be available in
digital form on the other hand, and I think so

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Even more interesting to unlock it and former
speech technologist is the material you are

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In digital humanities because it is the material
of people who want to give a voice to who they are

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Are and what they have experienced and what they themselves
think is important what they want to sing what they want to say

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Against the world, speech technology also offers
special possibilities for further development

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And to offer it's not about everyday speech it's
not about what you can do today in your phone

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Speaking it is a matter of challenging material because
in the background you hear all kinds of sounds

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Cars over there must close a door and several
people at the same time speak the speakers

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Are often somewhat older when it comes to interviews with
veterans to name something and the particular challenges

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For speech technology and we are able to
be the obstacles and indeed to them too

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People have an access opportunity here that is fast
and efficient and who more to ensure their voice

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Not lost