Speech Technology Services for Oral History Research
Christoph Draxler, Henk van den Heuvel, Arjan van Hessen and, Pavel Ircing, Jan Lehe\v{c}ka
TL;DR
This paper discusses speech technology tools and services for transcribing and processing oral history recordings, highlighting existing solutions, DIY options, challenges, and future directions.
Contribution
It introduces speech processing web services for oral history research, including transcription portals and DIY methods like Whisper, addressing current challenges and future prospects.
Findings
Development of transcription web services at BAS and LINDAT
Implementation of DIY speech processing with Whisper
Identification of remaining challenges and future developments
Abstract
Oral history is about oral sources of witnesses and commentors on historical events. Speech technology is an important instrument to process such recordings in order to obtain transcription and further enhancements to structure the oral account In this contribution we address the transcription portal and the webservices associated with speech processing at BAS, speech solutions developed at LINDAT, how to do it yourself with Whisper, remaining challenges, and future developments.
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Taxonomy
TopicsOral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis