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My name is Silvia Calamai and I work
at the University of Siena in Arezzo

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I'm a general linguist a
specialist in dialects

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Over the years I have collected,
catalogued, and digitized

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oral archives of Tuscan
origin from the 70's onwards

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This huge amount of material
consisting of spoken and sung Tuscan

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Needs to be studied,
by linguists

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Not only by linguists,
but also by linguists

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Voice Technologies can provide us
with tools to facilitate our work

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Through systems of automatic
alignment and speech recognition

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This would greatly facilitate the
research of those interested

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in Sociological perspective of
phonetics, sociolinguistics

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It would allow to see the changes in phonetic
aspects in pronunciation, accents, intonation

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Which have occurred over the
last 70 years in one region

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This work done manually is time
consuming, takes time long, is dispersive

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If we succeed through the support of CLARIN

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and through a dialogue
with technologists

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If we can find common ground,
create a shared vocabulary

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We eventually could get
a huge amount of data

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That could be analyzed from a
socio-phonetic point of view

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And we could describe it with a reliable
database that could be verified by the community

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We could describe on the basis of
a sound and verifiable database

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the phonetic changes that have
occurred within one region, not only

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We the automatization of the workflow of
the transcription chain is successful

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We could make a great amount of sound
data available through reading

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The wonderful thing about oral archives
is that they are at a cross road

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of disciplines that are quite distinctive,

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The oral historians, the socio-linguists, the
sociologists, the economists, the geographers

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The oral archives can be considered
as a resource in an imaginary place

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suitable to find paths to truly embark in
interdisciplinary approaches to research.

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Regarding my discipline, we only
have to take advantage of it

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On the other hand, Voice
Technology faces a big challenge

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To be able to create models of
automatic speech recognition

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Strong enough to be able to perform well in
speech with strong regional dialectical features

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It is material that has not been created
in isoloation in an experimental setting.

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Informal everyday talk offers a very
strong challenge on the technological side

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Who has oral archives, should open
them up and make them accessible

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should be willing to digitize and catalogue the material,
to describe it and share it with the community

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And technologists should be ready
and available to talk to humanists

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To make a common effort and come to
richer and fuller of research results

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make it accessible
and store archive

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Regardless of the discipline
accessible and even interrogative

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Find the way to put it on a common
vocabulary with the world of technology

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Sometimes hard or hard
to understand them

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Technologists but I feel that the existing technicians
are struggling to understand the humanists

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Then this can be a very fertile
ground for us but also for them