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Speech to Text

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British Library Sounds

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Digital Archives, Audiovisual Media and Cultural Memory

November 14, 2013 to November 15, 2013 – University of Copenhagen
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Palaver + VoxForge

Palaver is an open source GNU/Linux speech recognition using Google's voice API. VoxForge is a project that is collecting and compiling transcribed speech to develop a standard set of acoustic models that can be shared by open source speech recognition engines,https://github.com/JamezQ/Palaver#palaver-speech-recognition http://www.voxforge.org/Post from Linux News:…See More

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Digital Archives, Audiovisual Media and Cultural Memory at University of Copenhagen

November 14, 2013 to November 15, 2013

Digitization enables us to meet cultural heritage artifacts and narratives in heretofore unimagined media and platforms. Accessibility to written, visual, auditory and audiovisual sources increase dramatically. But how do we wish to access and interact with cultural heritage sources in the 21st Century? This conference focuses on practices of cultural memory in the multiform meetings between users and cultural heritage. What interfaces are established between users, be they researchers or…See More

Apr 9

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"Inside Palaver: Linux Speech Recognition that Taps Google's Voice Technology"

Apr 4

Mari King commented on Luke McKernan's group Speech to Text

"Relevant episode from this very popular BL affiliated series: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rg22g"

Mar 27

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Speech to Text

This group is for anyone interested in speech-to-text and voice recognition systems. Technologies that can convert the spoken word into text are growing in number, from voice-activated commands for smartphones to the conversion of digital speech archives into readable and searchable text.The particular focus of this group is the conversion of speech archives. It is interested in the competing technologies, cost-effective models for archives and libraries, and the uses of transcribed speech…See More

Mar 22

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Mar 13

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Darpa

Here's a report from Wired on how a combination of crowdsouring and speech-to-text could destroy privacy forever. The earlier project referred to is EARS.Darpa Wants You to Transcribe, and Instantly Recall, All of Your Conversationshttp://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/03/darpa-speech/The Pentagon’s blue-sky researchers are funding a project that uses…See More

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Luxid

http://www.temis.com/luxid-annotation-factoryLuxid® Annotation Factory provides a robust and scalable natural language processing pipeline that supports fast and reliable annotation services.OverviewBased on UIMA, Luxid® Annotation Factory's distributed architecture automatically balances the workload to all available processing units, and implements native fail-over capabilities sustaining the continuous processing required in…See More

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Sail Labs

Need to add something here about Austrian company Sail Labs, but meanwhile here's an interesting short video:See More

Feb 16

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Future Shorts Festival and Sound Edit: Wildlife screenings

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"THE NFL : A Bad Lip Reading" — A Bad Lip Reading of the NFL

Feb 13

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Future Shorts Festival and Sound Edit: Wildlife screenings

Saturday 2 Mar 2013, 15.00-17.00Conference Centre, British Library£5 / £3 concessionsBooking details hereWatch the winter programme of award-winning shorts from around the world from the Future Shorts Festival Highlights include winner of the Grand Jury Prize at 2012 Sundance Film Festival ‘Fishing without nets’, Jury prize winner at Woodstock Film Festival ‘We’re Leaving’ and from…See More

Feb 13

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Future Shorts Festival and Sound Edit: Wildlife screenings at British Library

March 2, 2013 from 3pm to 5pm

Watch the winter programme of award-winning shorts from around the world from the Future Shorts Festival Highlights include winner of the Grand Jury Prize at 2012 Sundance Film Festival ‘Fishing without nets’, Jury prize winner at Woodstock Film Festival ‘We’re Leaving’ and from the Oscar nominated director Patrik Eklund, ‘Slitage (Seeds of the Fall)’.There will also be a screening of the winning film from our wildlife sounds competition with IdeasTap. We set filmmakers the challenge to create…See More

Feb 13

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the Scared is scared from Bianca Giaever on Vimeo.

the Scared is scared

I asked a six year old what my movie should be about, and this is what he told me.

Feb 9

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What is your interest in sound recordings: I am interested in the cross-relationships between sound and moving image

Biography

I am Lead Curator, Moving Image at the British Library. My research interests include early film, newsreels, audiences, literature and film, and online video.

Personal website: www.lukemckernan.com

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the Scared is scared

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Future Shorts Festival and Sound Edit: Wildlife screenings

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Saturday 2 Mar 2013, 15.00-17.00

Conference Centre, British Library

£5 / £3 concessions

Booking details here

Watch the winter programme of award-winning shorts from around the world from the Future Shorts Festival Highlights include winner…

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The most beautiful record stores in the world

Posted on January 28, 2013 at 17:57 0 Comments 2 Likes

Mazeeka Samir Fouad – Cairo, Egypt

Flavourwire illustrates and describes ten beautiful record stories from around the world. See the other nine at…

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New services at the British Library

Posted on October 1, 2012 at 13:34 0 Comments 1 Like

From today the British Library is making available three new sound and moving image services in its Reading Rooms.

The three services are:

BBC Pilot Service

This is a trial service produced by the BBC in collaboration with the British Library. It brings together the BBC's…

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Sound and moving image survey

Posted on July 18, 2012 at 10:17 0 Comments 0 Likes

The British Library is planning to enhance its sound and moving image services to users. From today we are undertaking a survey to find out more about users’ current use of sound and moving images and what sort of a service you would expect from the British Library. Answers to the survey will help inform future developments at the Library. The survey should take 5-10 minutes to complete (and we're just as interested in responses from non BL members).…

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