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AI and Oral History: Applications in Holocaust Testimonies

An interesting on-line meeting about AI and Oral History Date: 25 November 2024Time: 14:25 –15:45How: Online We are pleased to welcome Maria Dermentzi (digital humanities consultant) and...

What automatic speech recognition can and cannot do for conversational speech transcription

Sam O'Connor Russell, Iona Gessinger, Anna Krason, Gabriella Vigliocco, Naomi Harte, In: Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, Volume 3, Issue 3, 2024,100163,ISSN 2772-7661.DOI:...

A new ASR tool: aTrain

At the end of March, we got the first version of our paper back to the LREC-COLING workshop about Holocaust Testimonies as Language Resources (Workshops – LREC-Coling 2024). We needed to modify some...

Update Whisper Large Model

OpenAI is pleased to announce the latest iteration of Whisper, called large-v3. Whisper-v3 has the same architecture as the previous large models except some minor differences. The large-v3 model...

How Might We Create Better Benchmarks for Speech Recognition?

The applications of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are proliferating, in part due to re-cent significant quality improvements. However, as recent work indicates, even state-of-the-art...

How researchers digitally preserve Holocaust evidence

Das E-Learning-Projekt „Musik im KZ Theresienstadt“ soll Schülerinnen und Schülern Grundlagenwissen über das Lager vermitteln. (The e-learning project "Music in Theresienstadt Concentration Camp"...

The dubbing artist: 'That's how Artificial Intelligence stole my voice'

(this aricle is an automatic translation of the original story, written in Italian) Remie Michelle Clarke is an Irish voice actor. She usually charges up to $2,000 for 30 seconds of her voice. But...

Whisper, a new ASR engine

Whisper is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual and multitask supervised data collected from the web. The developer of Whisper, OpenAI, shows that...

Exploring the possibilities of Thomson’s fourth paradigm transformation—The case for a multimodal approach to digital oral history?

Authors: Hannah K Smyth, Julianne Nyhan, Andrew Flinn Published: 02 January 2023 Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, fqac094,...

The State of Automatic Speech Recognition

Q&A with Kaldi’s Dan Povey This article continues the series on Automatic Speech Recognition, written at Medium.com. Few experts in the field of automatic speech recognition have the...

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