But on behalf of henk van den heuvel I am a speech technologist at the radboud university of
From nijmegen I have an incredible passion for sound and unlocking sound and it's right
In the twentieth century that the sound could also really be recorded and analyzed in that way
And I started as an ethic but grew and speech engineer and that's a development
Which I think is extremely important and for the one and it is what we are involved in now means it
That speech technology offers unbelievable opportunities to unlock audio and video
Look like and you can make an incredibly important contribution to digitizing analogue
Material like your tape recordings to make digital material there but speech engineer
You can then get started to unlock that material if you do not do that last it will be locked
In the closet again and may ask people but they do not know what's in it right through
Speech technology mean you can mean a lot more will give some examples what
To offer the speech technology we think of automatic speech recognition then it is possible to
The audio convert the spoken text to the spoken words into text and then it can
Read again and you can carry transcript by hand but it costs incredibly more much more
Time than when you can use an automatic speech recognition that many people do not agree with
Knowing that speech technology is also able to recognize speakers so is able to say too
Recognize who is speaking and at what time and can add that to the information boards and
In this way, what the speech technologist can do is to be readable and insightful to the
On one hand, the material will be available in digital form on the other hand, and I think so
Even more interesting to unlock it and former speech technologist is the material you are
In digital humanities because it is the material of people who want to give a voice to who they are
Are and what they have experienced and what they themselves think is important what they want to sing what they want to say
Against the world, speech technology also offers special possibilities for further development
And to offer it's not about everyday speech it's not about what you can do today in your phone
Speaking it is a matter of challenging material because in the background you hear all kinds of sounds
Cars over there must close a door and several people at the same time speak the speakers
Are often somewhat older when it comes to interviews with veterans to name something and the particular challenges
For speech technology and we are able to be the obstacles and indeed to them too
People have an access opportunity here that is fast and efficient and who more to ensure their voice
Not lost