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Title WOZ Acoustic Data Collection for Interactive TV
Authors Alessio Brutti, Luca Cristoforetti, Walter Kellermann, Lutz Marquardt and Maurizio Omologo
Abstract This paper describes a multichannel acoustic data collection recorded under the European DICIT project, during the Wizard of Oz (WOZ) experiments carried out at FAU and FBK-irst laboratories. The scenario is a distant-talking interface for interactive control of a TV. The experiments involve the acquisition of multichannel data for signal processing front-end and were carried out due to the need to collect a database for testing acoustic pre-processing algorithms. In this way, realistic scenarios can be simulated at a preliminary stage, instead of real-time implementations, allowing for repeatable experiments. To match the project requirements, the WOZ experiments were recorded in three languages: English, German and Italian. Besides the user inputs, the database also contains non-speech related acoustic events, room impulse response measurements and video data, the latter used to compute 3D labels. Sessions were manually transcribed and segmented at word level, introducing also specific labels for acoustic events.
Language Multiple languages
Topics Corpus (creation, annotation, etc.), Dialogue & Natural Interactivity, Speech resource/database
Full paper WOZ Acoustic Data Collection for Interactive TV
Slides WOZ Acoustic Data Collection for Interactive TV
Bibtex @InProceedings{BRUTTI08.584,
  author = {Alessio Brutti, Luca Cristoforetti, Walter Kellermann, Lutz Marquardt and Maurizio Omologo},
  title = {WOZ Acoustic Data Collection for Interactive TV},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08)},
  year = {2008},
  month = {may},
  date = {28-30},
  address = {Marrakech, Morocco},
  editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis, Daniel Tapias},
  publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)},
  isbn = {2-9517408-4-0},
  note = {http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/},
  language = {english}
  }

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