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Using president's transcribed speeches
User: donnied
Date: 7/29/2010 12:13 pm
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I did a quick search through the forums and didn't see any mention of this. The whitehouse.gov has a corpus of transcribed presidents' speeches along with the audio files. Have these been incorporated in Voxforge?

 

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Re: Using president's transcribed speeches
User: kmaclean
Date: 9/11/2010 11:24 pm
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>The whitehouse.gov has a corpus of transcribed presidents' speeches

>along with the audio files.

Thanks for letting us know!

>Have these been incorporated in Voxforge?

No, not yet - though I am not sure what kind of audio compression they are using.

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Re: Using president's transcribed speeches
User: TonyR
Date: 9/12/2010 4:29 am
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> No, not yet - though I am not sure what kind of audio compression they are using.

I've just looked at one audio which was MPEG layer-2, layer-3 at 128kbps and the corresponding video which was AAC at 113.6 kbps.


I'd guess that the AAC at 133.6 kbps is fine for ASR.  In general, if there is high quality video then the sound is also very good.

 

Tony

 

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Re: Using president's transcribed speeches
User: Visitor
Date: 9/13/2010 8:14 am
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Just to say that I'm working on this now - to avoid duplicating effort in case anyone else is also working on it.   I think the main problem will be working out if the Transcript is accurate.

 

Tony

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