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USC-SFI MALACH Interviews and Transcripts English
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USC-SFI MALACH Interviews and Transcripts English – Speech Recognition Edition was developed by IBM as part of the MALACH (Multilingual Access to Large Spoken ArCHives) Project.
Description
This edition augments USC-SFI MALACH Interviews and Transcripts English (LDC2012S05) by modifying and updating a subset of the original corpus for use with the Kaldi toolkit in speech recognition work, and is easily portable for use by other speech recognition systems as well.
It contains approximately 168 hours of interviews from 682 Holocaust witnesses along with transcripts, a lexicon, Kaldi specific files, and other documentation. Inspired by his experience making Schindler’s List, Steven Spielberg established the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation in 1994 to gather video testimonies from survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust. While most of those who gave testimony were Jewish survivors, the Foundation also interviewed homosexual survivors, Jehovah’s Witness survivors, liberators and liberation witnesses, political prisoners, rescuers and aid providers, Roma and Sinti (Gypsy) survivors, survivors of eugenics policies, and war crimes trials participants.
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The Foundation’s Visual History Archive holds nearly 55,000 video testimonies in 43 languages, representing 65 countries; it is the largest archive of its kind in the world. In 2006, the Foundation became part of the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and was renamed as the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education.
The goal of the MALACH project was to develop methods for improved access to large multinational spoken archives; the focus was advancing the state of the art of automatic speech recognition and information retrieval. The characteristics of the USC-SFI collection -- unconstrained, natural speech filled with disfluencies, heavy accents, age-related coarticulations, un-cued speaker and language switching and emotional speech -- were considered well-suited for that task.
The work centered on five languages: English, Czech, Russian, Polish and Slovak. LDC has also released USC-SFI MALACH Interviews and Transcripts Czech (LDC2014S04).
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- DOI doi.org/10.60503/d3/bixeh3 ↗
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Topics
- Stated by source
- Social Sciences
- From keywords
- Social Science
Provenance · 1 source records, 10 field assertions
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| UC Berkeley Library Dataverse | doi:10.60503/D3/BIXEH3 | 10 d ago | JSON v1 |
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| concepts[field].local:field:social-science | mapping · datasets lib berkeley edu | connector:datasets_lib_berkeley_edu@1.0.0 | /subjects |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:audio | enrichment · datasets lib berkeley edu | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (65%) |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:video | enrichment · datasets lib berkeley edu | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (75%) |
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