WORKSHOP ARRANGING COMPETITIONS IN SPEECH CAPTURING Jari Niittuinper

WORKSHOP ARRANGING COMPETITIONS IN SPEECH CAPTURING Jari Niittuinperä Tychy 2008

CHANGES IN PRAGUE Jury structure was changed - jury president, coordinators, power force, assistants Regulations were restructured Competitions were controlled more effectively - translations, dictations, valuations Result lists were produced faster - automation added Transparency added by publishing the texts and dictations Reports of competitions published (together with interviews of champions) Analysis of organizing competition written (base for manual in the future) Jari Niittuinperä Tychy 2008

MANAGEMENT IS COOPERATION Jari Niittuinperä Tychy 2008

PROCESS MANAGEMENT Timetable - status reports File templates - contents - naming standards Jari Niittuinperä Tychy 2008

TIMETABLE/PRAGUE Translation Dictation PRAGUE GER FR SP CHE CRO CHINA HUN ITALY Text choice FIN Text modification Lang. check 21. 1. Oct Nov Dec Jan 22. 2. Feb Mar Apr May June July Jari Niittuinperä Tychy 2008

TIMETABLE COMPARISION PRAGUE Text choice Text modification Lang. check 21. 1. Oct Nov Dec Jan Translation Dictation 22. 2. Feb Mar Apr May June July Aug Peking Text choice Text mod. Lang. check Original transl. Jury check Public comments Hyphnations Final texts Dictation Retranslations Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May June July Jari Niittuinperä Tychy 2008 Aug

CONTROL OF COMPETITIONS Translation Hyphenation Original text Modified text with modification marks Hyphenetated text (Latin alphabet text) Competition text Dictation Comparision to text Speed Original dictation Spreadsheet to calculate the speed Competition dictation Correction Valuation Calculation of points Competition papers Spreadsheet to calculate the points Jari Niittuinperä Tychy 2008

AVAILABLE TOOLS Translation Guidance Document templates Example documents Practical guidance to calculate the syllables Spreadsheet to calculate the hyphenation Dictation Guidance Audacity Correction Rules Spreadsheet to calculate the points Jari Niittuinperä Tychy 2008

SYLLABIFICATION Option 1: use a syllabification service http: //www. wordscount. info/hw/syllable. jsp Option 2: Syllabification macro Macro to calculate syllables About the macro - depends on the used system (even Word-version) - one predefined macro available in the package - creating an own macro is, however, easy – see document "Practical guidance how to count syllables easily" Jari Niittuinperä Tychy 2008

SYLLABIFICATION EXAMPLE 1) 2) Divide the text into syllables e. g. by putting "/" after each syllable. (Not "-" because it is a common mark inside the text) Syllabification macro changes "-" marks to "/" automatically Calculate syllables by - selecting the area - by find&replace (find "/" and replace "/") Word gives the number of replacements 3) At the end you may delete the "/"-marks by find&replace (find "/" and replace "/") Be prepared to syllabificate the text several times Jari Niittuinperä Tychy 2008

DIVISION INTO MINUTES Divide each minute into 15 s sections. There is an Excel-file to help. Do the final work after the original text has been accepted! Each section (not each minute!) from a new sentence (can be different than in the basic text) Jari Niittuinperä Tychy 2008

RECORDING Audacity - download http: //audacity. sourceforge. net/download/windows - version 1. 2. * or 1. 3. * - wav or mp 3 Good equipment Good environment Enough time – all the text including the practice dictation the same day Jari Niittuinperä Tychy 2008

MP 3 file If mp 3 is used, then download LAME MP 3 separately - download http: //lame. buanzo. com. ar/ Jari Niittuinperä Tychy 2008

Toolbox pause play stop record output level meter input level meter output volume cut/copy paste input volume time elapsed zoom in/out Jari Niittuinperä Tychy 2008

Zooming the recording Jari Niittuinperä Tychy 2008

BASICS File - New - creates a new project - project is a working area – not final recording - you may open a saved project and continue working with it File - Export - creates the final recording (choose then the file type mp 3 or wav) - remark that with other tools you may create wmv-files (do not use) Edit - Preferences -Audio/IO - choose Channels: 1 (Mono) Edit – Preference - Quality - choose Default Sample Rate: 22050 Hz Jari Niittuinperä Tychy 2008

SELECTION The actions effect on a selection. Select an area by pressing first pushing left button of the mouse and then moving the cursor to the right. From Edit you get a list of actions you may choose (e. g. delete/cut/paste) From Generate you may add Silence From Effect you get useful tools, like - Normalize - Change tempo Jari Niittuinperä Tychy 2008

COMPARISION OF ORIGINAL DICTATIONS/PRAGUE Jari Niittuinperä Tychy 2008

NORMALIZATION - 5 % (second example) Jari Niittuinperä Tychy 2008

NORMALIZATION Select an area Choose Effect – Normalize. . . Jari Niittuinperä Tychy 2008

Changing tempo Select an area from the beginning to the end of the minute. Choose Effect – Change Tempo. . . length of selection is 58. 01 seconds change it to 60 seconds and press OK Jari Niittuinperä Tychy 2008

EXCEL SHEET TO VERIFY THE SPEED This is a tool used by jury. Running time from beginning of recording by Audacity Jari Niittuinperä Tychy 2008

EVALUATION FORM Used during the competitions - manages the competitors - manages the evaluation process - calculates the points and transcription time - creates the competition results - gives some statistics (in the next version) Use of the form strongly recommended - final results given fast - increases the reliability of the results Jari Niittuinperä Tychy 2008

EVALUATION FORM Correctors evaluate Jury evaluates Pink fields can be filled Calculates automatically results Transcription time given by the correctors If these are given in order they are in the transcription, then it is easy to verify that the amount of 4 and 1 point mistakes is OK Mistakes minute by minute Shows rejected minutes in red Jari Niittuinperä Tychy 2008

DATABASE STRUCTURE Competitor follow-up Competitor forms-lang 1 Evaluation forms/lang 1 Evaluation form 1/lang 1 Button "Accept" Package given to the correctors Only the language to be corrected Competitor forms-lang 1 Competitor forms/lang 1 Competitor form 1/lang 1 Jari Niittuinperä Tychy 2008

WORKSHOP ARRANGING COMPETITIONS IS COOPERATION Jari Niittuinperä Tychy 2008