Ask the experts : Part II: Analysis
Jens Edlund, Joakim Gustafson · 2010
The work presented here is fuelled by an urge to understand speech in its original and most fundamental context: conversation between people. And what better way to search for such an understanding than to look to the experts? When it comes to human conversation, authority lies with the speakers themselves, and asking the experts is a question of observing and analyzing what speakers do. Ask the experts is an overview of our endeavours to apply a speech technologist’s view of observation and analysis to linguistic research. Ask the experts is a two-part paper. In the first part, Elicitation, we discuss methods of capturing what people do when they talk to each other. In the second part, Analysis, we discuss methods of extracting useful information from the raw data so captured, with a special focus on raw sound. Data capturing and its analysis are often bridged by annotation, a topic which is largely left out here. A discussion of principles and methods for annotation, however, provides scope for a future third part. Both Elicitation and Analysis