My name is Silvia Calamai and I work at the University of Siena in Arezzo
I'm a general linguist a dietician
Over the years I collected discovered invented cataloged
Oral archive of Tuscan origin from the 70's onwards
This immense material of spoken and sung Tuscan
Need to be studied to be studied also by linguists
Not only by linguists but also by linguists
Voice Technologies can provide tools and facilitate work
Through automatic alignment recognition systems through alignment systems
This would greatly facilitate the research work of those who are on the part of the phonetic sociology of sociolinguistics
It would allow to see the changes in phonetic aspects in prononciation and accents in intonation
Which have occurred over the last 70 years in a region
Then this hand-made work and long takes time is dispersive
If we succeed through Clarin's infrastructure and across
Collaboration a close dialogue with unitechnologies
If we can talk to them to find a common vocabulary
We eventually could have a lot of data flight numbers
To be analyzed from a phonetic partner point of view
And we could describe it with a reliable database that could be verified by the Community
We could describe the changes the phonetic changes we have been in a region
not only
We could if the transcription chain automation process is successful
We could make reading a great deal of sound material accessible
The wonderful thing about oral archives is that they are located
In the middle of a cross between disciplines also very different
Sociolinguistic oralists sociologists economists and geographers
Then the oral archives are an imaginary place
In order to be able to find research routes is truly interdisciplinary
Regarding my discipline, we only have to take advantage of it
On the other hand, and Voice Technologies face a challenge
To be able to create models of automatic speech recognition
Strong enough even on a dirty talk about a regional dialectical talk
It is said that it is not the one collected in the anecoic chamber of an aseptic experimental context
Real talk offers even very challenging challenges on the technological side
Then at the oral archives it is good to open them up that makes them accessible
That he is willing to digitize and catalog them to describe them and return them to the community
And technologies must be ready and available to talk to humanists
To make a common effort make this path richer and fuller of search results
Make it accessible and store archive
Regardless of the discipline accessible and even interrogative
Find the way to put it on a common vocabulary with the world of technology
Sometimes hard or hard to understand them
Technologists but I feel that the existing technicians are struggling to understand the humanists
Then this can be a very fertile ground for us but also for them