From scenario to segment: the controlled elicitation, transcription, segmentation and labelling of spontaneous speech
Klaus J. Köhler, Matthias Pätzold, Adrian P. Simpson · Multimedialen Archiv und Publikationsserver der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel) · 1995
This volume of AIPUK gives a comprehensive account of the recording, processing and analysis platforms for spontaneous speech as they have been developed for German at IPDS Kiel.It is intended as a compendium for working with the speech data (signal and label files) of The Kiel Corpus of Read Speech (IPDS, 1994) and The Kiel Corpus of Spontaneous Speech (IPDS, 1995), which the IPDS is building up as a CD-ROM archive for phonetic research (1994ff.), and as part of a phonetic data bank of spoken North High German.Only data are incorporated into this data base that have been processed at the phonetic level, i.e. that have been annotated segmentally and in parts prosodically.The Kiel Corpora thus differ in basic orientation from the Bavarian Archive for Speech Signals (BAS), cf.Tillmann et al. (1995).This essential constraint on speech data archiving provides a powerful tool for systematic large-scale data bank search in the symbolic and signal domains, to investigate a wide spectrum of spontaneous German pronunciation at the word and utterance levels.This handbook lays the methodological and theoretical foundations for this research.Preliminary work, carried out with financial support from the German Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Technology (Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie) in the framework of the Verbmobil Project under Grant 01IV101M7, was reported in Kohler et al. (1994aKohler et al. ( , 1994b)), Pätzold and Simpson (1994), Pätzold et al. (1995).The writing and publication of this AIPUK number was made possible through University of Kiel funding.vii IV Canonical transcription IV.1 Canonical transcription of words IV.2 Vowels IV.3 Consonants IV.4 Lexical stress IV.5 Morphological and syntactic information IV.6 Nonverbal and nonvocal signal portions IV.7 Punctuation marks IV.8 Overlaid stretches V Segmentation and labelling V.1 Label generation V.1.1Canonical labels V.1.2Additional labels V.2 Segmentation and labelling process V.2.1 Label modifications V.3 Segmenting and labelling the phonetics of words V.3.1 Vowels V.3.2Plosives V.3.2.1 General V.3.2.2 Plosive release phase V.3.2.3 Missing occlusion after a nasal V.3.2.4 Plosives realized as strictures of open and close approximation V.3.3Nasals and nasalization V.3.3.1 General V.3.3.2Nasalization V.3.4Fricatives V.3.5 Lateral V.3.6 Glottal stop and creak V.3.6.1 General V.3.6.2Word-initial V.3.6.3Junctural creaky phonation, without a canonical glottal stop V.3.6.4In connection with plosives before and after nasals and laterals V.3.7 Reduction and assimilation V.3.8Marking non-linear correlates ix V.3.9Marking uncertain segment boundaries V.4 Segmenting and labelling interactional aspects of a turn V.4.1 False start and truncation V.4.2 Word-internal interruption V.4.3 Hesitational lengthening V.4.4 Hesitation particles V.4.5 Problematic stretches of utterance V.4.6 Neologisms and slips of the tongue V.4.7 Punctuation V.4.8 Nonverbal signal portions V.5 Labelling nonvocal aspects of a turn V.5.1 External noise V.5.2 Technical breaks VI Prosodic labelling VI.1 Prosodic phrasing VI.1.1General VI.1.2Phrasing markers VI.2 Stress VI.2.1 Lexical stress VI.2.2 Sentence accent VI.3 Intonation VI.3.1 Intonation contours VI.3.2Peak and valley alignment VI.3.3Downstep and reset VI.3.4Upstep VI.3.5 High pre-head VI.4 Speech rate VI.5 Prosodic labelling of word fragments VI.6 Uncertainty VI.7 Cyclic approach to prosodic labelling VII Lexicon generation VII.1 Canonical lexicon VII.2 Variants lexicon x VIII Transliteration and labelling environment VIII.